True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.

I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!