A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

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