It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

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

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

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

One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; — hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; — hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin — a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it — if such a thing were possible — even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.