To labour at living and be unpaid is worse than to be dead.

He who delights the most lives the most, and your dreams and unrealities are less disturbing to you and more gratifying than are my facts to me." He shook his head slowly, pondering.
"I often doubt, I often doubt, the worthwhileness of reason.

Dreams must be more substantial and satisfying.

Emotional delight is more filling and lasting than intellectual delight; and, besides, you pay for your moments of intellectual delight by having the blues.

Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate.