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.

The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.

Blood was its Avatar and its seal.