Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

Every branch of human knowledge if traced up to its source and final principles vanishes into mystery