In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

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

Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.