Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe, r. Oct. 2014

p. 11 There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds must have been attained. 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.

p. 52 "That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had the fashion of calling everything "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid and absolute legion of "oddities."