I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

"As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles."

"Thank Heaven! the crisis --
The danger, is past,
And the lingering illness,
Is over at last --,
And the fever called "Living"
Is conquered at last."