"The world is a theatre, and we are merely players."

"To elevate the soul poetry is necessary."

"A novelist, for example, need have no care of his moral. It is there -- that is to say, it is somewhere -- and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves."

"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."

"I have been a victim of a thousand phantasies."