Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs.