Leave my loneliness unbroken

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.