I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

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.

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

By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule -- From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE, out of TIME.