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

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

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

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.