Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
The burden of the incommunicable.
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.
All that is literature seeks to communicate power