Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.