Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

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.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal