And after all a dream may be a man’s best possession;

Nature in Downland

WH Hudson , 1900: page 124

…And after all a dream may be a man’s best possession; though it be but of an immeasurably remote future – a time when these tentative growths, called art, and valued as the highest good attainable – the bright consummate flower of intellect – shall have withered, and, like the tendrils no longer needed, dropped forgotten from the human plant.