Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.