Edgar Allan Poe — "I have a profound contempt for all hypocrisy."

"If you determine to abandon me — here take I my farewell — Neglected — I will be doubly ambitious, & the world shall hear of the son whom you have thought unworthy of your notice."

"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."

"It is not a matter of whether or not you will die, but of how you will live."

"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…"

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the de…"