And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

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

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs.