I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home. I do not think that what I read in these books or saw in these fields and groves was exactly what other boys read and saw there; but of this I must say little, since detailed speech would but confirm those cruel slanders upon my intellect which I sometimes overhear from the whispers of the stealthy attendants around me.