The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.

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

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

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

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend

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.