To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.

Yes," I said, "for the love of God!

Lord help my poor soul.