"Why ought the author of the 'Grotesque and Arabesque' to be a good writer of verses? Because he's a poet to a t. Add t to Poe makes it Poet."

"I have a very strong opinion that the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

"To be thoroughly conversant with at least one branch of human knowledge is a desideratum of the first importance."

"The highest intellect is but a shadow of the lowest intuition."

"The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us, (for a brief period, at least) are, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, persons of mere address, perseverance, effrontery—in a word, busy-bo…"