If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

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

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

You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

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

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.