Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals – for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

If we were sensible we would seek death – the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Certainly, we were in one of the strangest, weirdest, and most terrible of all the corners of earth’s globe.

Then came upon an incredible essay by Lafcadio Hearn, something entitled “Gaki,” detailing the curious Japanese belief that insects are really demons or the ghosts of evil men.

One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of original art and background in bits of detail here and there – a worn flight of steps, a wormy pair of decorative columns of pilasters, or a fragment of once green space with bent and rusted iron railing.

Nahum did not send her to the county asylum, but let her wander about the house as long as she was harmless to herself and others. Even when her expression changed he did nothing. But when the boys grew afraid of her, and Thaddeus nearly fainted at the way she made faces at him, he decided to keep her locked in the attic.

Look here, do you know the whole North End once had a set of tunnels that kept certain people in touch with each other’s houses, and the burying ground, and the sea?

I recognized the ugly and unwieldy form of the cook, whose very absurdness had now become unutterably tragic. The.