Edgar Allan Poe — "Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will…"

"I have often thought that the sole regret of the transformed butterfly must be that it can only live for a day."

"We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation - to make a point - than to further the cause of truth."

"The ‛Imp of the Perverse’ is a radical, a primitive impulse—elementary, and altogether indissoluble."

"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 am a man of the world, and have seen much of its evil. I have also seen something of its good. But I have never seen anything so good as a good wife."