Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.