A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...

He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.