The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

The living have never shown me how to live.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.