Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

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

And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.