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.

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.