The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

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

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

There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.