The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.