On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.