“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”

“For passion must, with youth, expire.”

“To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!”

“Deep in earth my love is lyingAnd I must weep alone.”

“A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.”

“And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.”

“...something which, for want of a more definite term at present, I must be permitted to be called queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical.”