I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado.