“Which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”

“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”

“Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.”

“Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.”

“I dreamed of myself in a dream, and told the dream, which was mine, as if it were another person's of whom I dreamed. Indeed what is life when thinking of the past, but dreaming of a dream dreamt by another who seems to be oneself?”

“His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.”