Metaphysics May Be, After All, Only The

Custom Has Furnished The Only Basis Which Ethics Have Ever Had.

The Most Important Part Of Our Lives-our Sensations, Emotions, Desires, And Aspirations-takes Place In A Universe Of Illusions Which Science Can Attenuate Or Destroy, But Which It Is Powerless To Enrich.

Cats Seem To Go On The Principle That It Never Does Any Harm To Ask For What You Want.

There Are Some Optimists Who Search Eagerly For The Skunk Cabbage Which In February Sometimes Pushes Itself Up Through The Ice, And Who Call It A Sign Of Spring. I Wish That I Could Feel That Way About It, But I Do Not. The Truth Of The Matter, To Me, Is Simply That Skunk Cabbage Blooms In The Winter Time.

To Be Individually Righteous Is The First Of All Duties, Come What May To Ones Self, To One's Country, To Society, And To Civilization Itself.