“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”

“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.”

“I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?”

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”

“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”

“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”