I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs