"What is the best: things draped in colour, as by a lens, or the naked things themselves?
truth ablaze, or falsehood's fancy haze?
I choose the first." It is an old man's effort to make the best of age.

For my part, I do not see that the things are the better for losing the colour the soul gives them.

The things themselves are indifferent.

But as seen by the soul, they are seen in God, and the colour and light which imagination gives them are themselves divine.

Nor is their colour or light only in our imagination, but in themselves also, part of the glory and beauty of God.