It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.