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

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

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.

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.