"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."

"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."