As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.

Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

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.

But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.