...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel

In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.

There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.