Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

I have been happy, tho’ in a dream.I have been happy—and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strifeOf semblance with reality which bringsTo the delirious eye, more lovely thingsOf Paradise and Love—and all our own!Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known.

Pero los bancos no son individuos, sino sociedades, y las sociedades carecen de cuerpos donde se puedan aplicar puntapiés y de almas que mandar al demonio

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

Tudo o que vemos ou parecemos / não passa de um sonho dentro de um sonho.