The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet]

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

I teach that all men are mad.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.