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

"It is an evil growing out of our republican institutions, that here a man of large purse has usually a very little soul which he keeps in it."

"Were I to be asked what it is that gives me the most intense delight, I should say a conversation with a beautiful woman."

"I have no faith in any system of philosophy that does not begin with God."

"I have... for the metaphysical poets [William Wordsworth, etc.], as poets, the most sovereign contempt. That they have followers proves nothing."

"The greatest crimes are not those committed for profit, but those committed for love."