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

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.