Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

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

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

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

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

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.