All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.