"All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream."

"The waggish author of 'The New Mirror' is, I believe, the first who has openly maintained the doctrine that the great end of a writer is to get money."

"I have a profound conviction that the world is a species of gigantic jest—a jest of the most elaborate and stupendous—of the most complicated and august—and of the most utterly incomprehensible charac…"

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

"The pure Imagination is a faculty, and not a quality."