Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

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

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.