If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.