Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

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.

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

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.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.