Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.

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

The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.