A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.