“You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.”

“TRUE! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses – not destroyed – not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily – how calmly I can tell you the whole story.”

“He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.”

“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.”

“And haven't I told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses.”

“And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?”

“There seemed a deep sense of life and joy about all; and although no airs blew from out the Heavens, yet everything had motion through the gentle sweepings to and fro of innumberable butterflies, that might have been mistaken for tullips with wings.”