Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

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

And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.