A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries.

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.