They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.

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

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore