We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

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.

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?