The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there

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

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.