He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

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.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.

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

Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.