“Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.”

“I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again”

“But far more numerous was the herd of such,Who think too little, and who talk too much.”

“For you may palm upon us new for old:All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.”

“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”

“If others in the same Glass better see 'Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me: For my Salvation must its Doom receive Not from what others, but what I believe.”

“Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as...”

“As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.”

“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”

“Work will drive you crazy if you let it.”

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whi...”