A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Remorse weeps tears of blood.