Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

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

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.