A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; — This it is, and nothing more.

I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.