I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Nothing endures but personal qualities

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

Dreaming. -- Either one does not dream at all, or one dreams in an interesting manner. One must learn to be awake in the same fashion: -- either not at all, or in an interesting manner.

The future is no more uncertain than the present

I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms