I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

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

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.