It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

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.

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!