The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts,
is a power behind the eye.

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts,
is a power behind the eye.

They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves.
[Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi read more

They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves.
[Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.]

It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

It shall be so.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
[Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae read more

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
[Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.]

We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.

We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.

There is a pleasure, sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!

There is a pleasure, sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!

O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?
His chain some furious madman breaks;
He comes--I see read more

O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?
His chain some furious madman breaks;
He comes--I see his glaring eyes:
Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes.
Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe,
Such screams to hear, such sights to see!
My brain, my brain,--I know, I know
I am not mad but soon shall be.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.