I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.