I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now.

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was - but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.