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

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

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

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

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.