It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.