"...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies."

"And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being."

"[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake."

"But words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."

"And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep."

"Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next."

"Dreams take us to levels we would otherwise be afraid to strive for."

"Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."

"Virtue can only flourish among equals."

"I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them."

"Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream."

"To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can."

"Look before you leap."

"An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory."

"Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream."

"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."

"What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions."