For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.

To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

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

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.