That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.

But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust