The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.