The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
Genius is full of trash.
My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.