"Dreams are but the reflections of our waking hours."

"What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident."

"When I reflected on the work I had completed, no less than on the failure of my hopes, I was filled with a bitter anguish."

"The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more, and the future is not yet."

"The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality."