"Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed."

"The Mind has Nerves of it's own – that the Eye does not know –"

"To shut me in, I understood, would be to shut me out."

"This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me – The simple News that Nature told – With tender Majesty"

"Much Madness is divinest Sense – To a discerning Eye – Much Sense – the starkest Madness – 'Tis the Majority In this, as all, prevail – Assent – and you are sane – Demur – you're straightway dangerous…"