“For all we live to know is known.”

“And boyhood is a summer sun / Whose waning is the dreariest one-- / For all we live to know is known, / And all we seek to keep hath flown--”

“Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.”

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

“Is all that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?”

“In a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream”

“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”