“It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.”

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Kindness is stronger than fear.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Ability without honor is useless.

A friend is a second self.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Love me madly, quietly, wildly.

Shortly after meeting you I fell in love so madly.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.