To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

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.

There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.