1. “That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”
2. “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
3. “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears”
4. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
5. “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
6. “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
7. “The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins.”
8. “There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”
9. “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
10. “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
11. “I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”
12. “Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
13. “To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.”
14. “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
15. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
