-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

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

In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.