If he appears nervous and uneasy an hour before the killing, he is insane.

If he weeps over a great grief, his friends shake their heads, and fear that he is "not right." If, an hour after the murder, he seems ill at ease, preoccupied, and excited, he is, unquestionably insane.
Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

There is where the true evil lies.
A CURIOUS DREAM [Written about 1870.] CONTAINING A MORAL Night before last I had a singular dream.

I seemed to be sitting on a doorstep (in no particular city perhaps) ruminating, and the time of night appeared to be about twelve or one o'clock.

The weather was balmy and delicious.