Edgar Allen Poe - The Gold Bug

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
Edgar Allen Poe - The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allen Poe
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!
Edgar Allen Poe
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

- Edgar Allen Poe - The Gold Bug