Paul Collins Quotes

What you mean to find matters less than what you do find.

Generally, when a man is rabidly for one cause, and then is just as rabidly for another cause, it is not because he loves the cause: it is because he loves the rabies

Put the penis schematic away, he told the coroner.

But this much is known: Hamilton shot into the trees. Burr, leveling his pistol at his foe, did not.

How can we expect that the illiterate and benighted child of want will remain faithful . . . when he in whose breast the lamp of science brightly burns is found derelict?

It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books...It is only by books that most men and women can lift themselves above the sordidness of life. No books! Yet for the greater p...

Back then, Manhattan was the infant country

Positive and direct proof of fraud is not to be expected.… The nature of the thing itself, which is generally carried out in a secret and clandestine manner, does not admit of any but circumstantial e...

For more fortunate readers, it reminded them that the action of the clytoris in women is like that of a penis to man, and the key to brifk and vigorous enjoyments—especially with cares and thoughts of...

You could expect bread, cheese, preserved apples, eggs, and a solid draft of warm beer. Tea and coffee were only slowly taking hold at breakfast in the finer houses, and the city’s old Dutch families...

THE YOUNG carpenter miserably regarded his fellow inmates. Some had been confined for so long that nobody even knew why they were there anymore. One wild-looking blind and insane man known as Paul fro...

Coffee biggins—the last being the latest fad from France, involving the boiling of coffee rather than merely drinking it as a dissolved

It is a telling commentary on how authors control what they write, but not what is read. Poe regarded his tales of ratiocination as something of a distraction; his great loves were poetry and his pros...

If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent. There is something unbreakable in that hand-dug foundational gouge into the earth....

If every man who wrote a story which was indirectly inspired by Poe were to pay a tithe towards a monument, Doyle later mused, it would be such as would dwarf the pyramids.

I been brought up a hatter, he sighed, people would have come into the world without heads.

Such madness was strictly prohibited in New York, but not in New Jersey.

On the morning of his funeral, the Baltimore Sun failed to announce the service, but mourned that his death will cause poignant regret among all who admire genius, and have sympathy for the frailties...

Much of Hamilton’s previous two years had been spent building up an additional army, justified by stoking fears of a French invasion of godless radicals. That country’s revolution, Hamilton warned, ex...

And yet something unsettling remained about the notion of John Pastano as a willful murderer: the recollection, perhaps, that after murdering Mary Castro, he had filled his hat with her blood and wand...