"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
"Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!"
"The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
"It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve."
