Edgar Allan Poe

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

I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

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

No spectacle can be more pitiable than that of a man without the commonest school education busying himself in attempts to instruct mankind on topics of polite literature.

He [Longfellow] was guilty of 'the most barbarous class of literary robbery.'

Peculiar and not original.

We did not look for character in it, for that is not Cooper's forte; nor did we expect that his heroine would be aught better than the inanimate thing she is.

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it.

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. When the proper time arrives, all that the gentleman intended, and all that he did not intend, will be brought to light, in the "Dial," or the "Down-Easter," together with all that he ought to have intended, and the rest that he clearly meant to intend: -- so that it will all come very straight in the end.

My generous throat has shared among the fishes.

Mr. Slyass

Mr. Mumblethumb

Mr. Fatquack

Doctor Dubble L. Dee

Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head

Psyche Zenobia