Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.

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

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.