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.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.