The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table on Vathek: “I recollect, as all do, the story of the Hall of Eblis, in "Vathek," and how each shape, as it lifted its hand from its breast, showed its heart,--a burning coal.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table on Voyages: “The young ladies of Otaheite, as you may see in Cook's Voyages, had a sort of crinoline arrangement fully equal in radius to the largest spread of our own lady-baskets.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table on The Pleasures of Hope: “If she had but clutched the old Roman and young American weapon, and come to close quarters, there might have been a chance for her; but it would have spoiled the best passage in "The Pleasures of Hope."”