To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Source: Centuries, Fourth Century, no. 20 (written c. 1672; published 1908).
-- Thomas Traherne, ( 1637-1674), English poet, mystic; He wrote Roman Forgeries, 1673 and Christian Ethicks, 1675.