No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

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

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

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget