“Too much philosophy makes men mad.”

Brings [O’Brian’s] achievement to a new height.

Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch’s ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels but alas!.

I hear better with a pen in my hand.

Such is O’Brian’s power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next.

That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O’Brian a Master of the Art.

Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.

Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.

From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.

Sometimes all you need is a little madness to speak your mind…

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

Color my life with the paint of your madness.

If madness had not lost me I would not have found myself.

She is an all encompassing enigma of beauty and madness don’t attempt to tie her down.