Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.

Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.