Edgar Allan Poe — "That man is a fool who cannot be a knave when he pleases."

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."

"Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

"Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not?"

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

"A novelist, for example, need have no care of his moral. It is there -- that is to say, it is somewhere -- and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves."