“Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.”

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.”

“Felicity, felicity - how shall I say it? - is quaffed out of a golden cup in every latitude: the flavour is with you - with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.”

“We live as we dream--alone....”

“dreams are madness, my dear. It's things that happen in the waking world, while one is asleep, that one would be glad to know the meaning of.”

“We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.”

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”