“There is only a difference of proportion of madness between an average man and a mad man; the quality of madness is the same.”
“If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.”
“Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.”
“The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.”
“He'sh mad?""Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money.""Ah, then he can’t be mad. I've been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he'sh just ecshentric.”
“Pamper the mad man.”