Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.
In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound