When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.