The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.