The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.

Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.