I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.