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

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention.

We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!