Edgar Allan Poe — "I have been a great sufferer. I have been a great sufferer from the misery of th…"

"It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneli…"

"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."

"To be thoroughly conversant with at least one branch of human knowledge is a desideratum of the first importance."

"And so being young and dipt in folly / I fell in love with melancholy."

"True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acut…"