“Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, in the sepulcher there by the sea”

“And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me.”

"And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—/ Then—in my childhood—in the dawn / Of a most stormy life—was drawn /From ev’ry depth of good and ill/ The mystery which binds me still—"

“Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!”

"He was still sitting up in the bed listening;—just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall.”

"From childhood’s hour I have not been/ As others were—I have not seen/ As others saw—”

“It was a low, dull, quick sound—much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.”

 “I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.”

“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed!—tear up the planks!—here, here!—it is the beating of his hideous heart!”

“TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”

"I was a child and she was a child,

   In this kingdom by the sea,"

"A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."

"Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this!"

"If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."