"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."
"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."
"The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception."
"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true."
"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."
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."