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

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.

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.