The Murders in the Rue Morgue Quotes

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial.

The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.

The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities – that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.