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

I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

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

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.