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

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

Conscience is the pulse of reason

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.