• Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

• I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.

• Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

• It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

• Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

• All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

• It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

• Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

• Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.