Edgar Allan Poe

“Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.”

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague.”

“Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen —; although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.”

“It is with literature as with law or empire — an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.”

“There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr.”

“Babbage, and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.”

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

“Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”