"I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror." — Edgar Allan Poe

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

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

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

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.