Edgar Allan Poe — "Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."

"I have a profound contempt for all affectation."

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think are the works of God with a sentiment of profoundest reverence, as the highest manifestations of the…"

"The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive."

"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human progress is an illusion, that man is not an animal that can be perfected, but an animal that can be improved."

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."