Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.

“But Orlando was a woman — Lord Palmerston had just proved it. And when we are w…”

“So the days pass and I ask myself sometimes whether one is not hypnotised, as a…”

“You were given a sharp, acute, uncomfortable grain..; yet in absence, in the mo…”

“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”