Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

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.

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.