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.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!

Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.

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.

Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.