Once upon a midnight dreary
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.
Art is to look at not to criticize.
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries