We should have no enjoyment except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. You might as well not believe in fairies. Nobody sees Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see.
Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. He lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.