Author of quotes: Edgar Allan PoE

In my time, I did not know anyone who held such a fantastic view that the universe (or this world, if you like) had a beginning.

... there is no sickness worse than addiction to Alcohol.

But such is the perversity of human nature - she prefers distant and unclear near and certain.

Fear inconsistencies of time or place always deterred mankind from a knowledge of the sublime.

Then we started talking about the beauty and greatness of democracy and tried hard to convince the count correct consciousness of those advantages, what we enjoyed, having the right to vote ad libitum and not having over themselves a king.
Our speech seems quite interested and even clearly amused. When we finished, he explained that they had in Egypt, too, in ancient times there was something in a completely similar way. Thirteen Egyptian provinces suddenly decided that they need to be freed, and put a great beginning for all mankind. Their wise men got together and wrote the most that neither is remarkable Constitution. At first all went well, only unusually developed boasting. It ended, however, the fact that these thirteen provinces were United with the rest, not fifteen, not twenty, one despotism, but such vile and intolerable, what else the world had never seen.
I asked what was the name of the despot-usurper.
He replied that as he remembers, his name was - the Crowd.

The abundance of ideas people removed through the nostrils by sneezing.

... Even a plan developed with the greatest art, often topples at the slightest attempt to carry it out.

For example, few people inexhaustible depth and is not prone to the bottle. Whether this tendency is a compelling reason for such a depth, or rather a valid proof - is a delicate question.