Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. – Alphonse Karr
Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. – Alphonse Karr
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. – Alphonse Karr
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses. – Alphonse Karr
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. – Paracelsus, quoted in The Dream Game