Quotes

“PLEASE LOOK AFTER THIS BEAR. THANK YOU.”

“In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day.”

“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

“The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea.”

“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner”

“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are”

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business”

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy”

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year”

“Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom.”

“The perfection of the portrait consists in its likeness.”

“The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives.”

“Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.”

“As the treble, the tenor, and the bass exist in nature, they will be heard in the concert.”

“What is the ingredient which in England has preserved the democratical authority? The balance, and that only.”

“The institutions now made in America will not wholly wear out for thousands of years. It is of the last importance, then, that they should begin right.”

“The president of Pennsylvania might, upon such an occasion, have recollected one of Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion”

“It follows, then, that man is so constituted, that government is necessary to the existence of society, and society to his existence, and the perfection of his faculties.”

“takes the sense of each, through its majority or appropriate organ, and the united sense of all, as the sense of the entire community.”

“constitution implies limitation or restriction”

“This principle, in constitutional governments, is compromise”

“it is found, in practice, not only to succeed, but to be the safest, the wisest and the best that human ingenuity has ever devised.”

“A reward more appropriate than liberty could not be conferred on the deserving”

“But to go further, and make equality of condition essential to liberty, would be to destroy both liberty and progress.”

“At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera. But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army.”

“He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget.”

“Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.”

“I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the Business of Civil Government from that of Religion, and to settle the just Bounds that lie between the one and the other.”

“The Commonwealth seems to me to be a Society of Men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing of their own Civil Interests.”

“Civil Interests I call Life, Liberty, Health, and Indolency of Body; and the Possession of outward things, such as Money, Lands, Houses, Furniture, and the like.”

“All the Life and Power of true Religion consists in the inward and full perswasion of the mind; and Faith is not Faith without believing.”

“A Church then I take to be a voluntary Society of Men, joining themselves together of their own accord, in order to the publick worshipping of God, in such a manner as they judge acceptable to him, and effectual to the Salvation of their Souls.”

“No man can be forced to be Rich or Healthful, whether he will or no. Nay, God himself will not save men against their wills.”

“Lastly, Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the Being of a God. Promises, Covenants, and Oaths, which are the Bonds of Humane Society, can have no hold upon an Atheist.”

“neither Pagan, nor Mahumetan, nor Iew, ought to be excluded from the Civil Rights of the Commonwealth, because of his Religion.”

“"Soldiers don't complain," she would say between her small, shut teeth, "I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war."”

“EVERYTHING'S a story. You are a story--I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.”

“"She is hungrier than I am," she said to herself. "She's starving."”

“to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people.”

“I--TRIED not to be anything else," she answered in a low voice--"even when I was coldest and hungriest--I tried not to be.”

“GOD ALMIGHTY in his most holy and wise providence, hath soe disposed of the condition of mankind, as in all times some must be rich, some poore, some high and eminent in power and dignitie; others mean and in submission.”

“Love is the bond of perfection.”

“for to love and live beloved is the soule's paradise both here and in heaven.”

“For it is a true rule that particular Estates cannot subsist in the ruin of the publique.”

“Now the onely way to avoyde this shipwracke, and to provide for our posterity, is to followe the counsell of Micah, to doe justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God.”

“Therefore lett us choose life that wee, and our seede may liue, by obeyeing His voyce and cleaveing to Him, for Hee is our life and our prosperity.”

“Lucifer, we are told, was a son of the morning, a radiant and mighty angel; yet he fell”

“A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea.”

“Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.”

“It is not from the past to the future, as past and future, that we infer, but from the known to the unknown; from facts observed to facts unobserved”

“the proposition that the course of nature is uniform, is the fundamental principle, or general axiom of Induction.”

“Why is a single instance, in some cases, sufficient for a complete induction, while in others, myriads of concurring instances, without a single exception known or presumed, go such a very little way toward establishing a universal proposition?”

“The ellipse was in the facts before Kepler recognized it; just as the island was an island before it had been sailed round.”

“The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative taken together”

“If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ, is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.”

“there are some truths in medicine which are sufficiently proved by direct experiment.”

“is no contradiction to the law of cause and effect; it is a new effect, supposed to be produced by the introduction of a new cause.”

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

“a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you”

“there had been a strong and extraordinary revival of the train of thought and remembrance that was the first cause of the malady”

“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms.”

“I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live”

“allowing every man to think what he likes, and say what he thinks.”

“That nature cannot be contravened, but that she preserves a fixed and immutable order”

“the method of interpreting Scripture does not widely differ from the method of interpreting nature - in fact, it is almost the same.”

“whosoever loves justice and charity we know, by that very fact, to be faithful: whosoever persecutes the faithful, is an enemy to Christ.”

“We have shown that Scripture does not teach philosophy, but merely obedience, and that all it contains has been adapted to the understanding and established opinions of the multitude.”

“The most tyrannical governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right over his thoughts”

“In fact, the true aim of government is liberty.”

“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.”

“Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.”

“we need only draw the curtain of words, to hold the fairest tree of knowledge, whose fruit is excellent, and within the reach of our hand.”

“This perceiving, active being is what I call MIND, SPIRIT, SOUL, or MYSELF.”

“all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind”

“Now THE SET RULES OR ESTABLISHED METHODS WHEREIN THE MIND WE DEPEND ON EXCITES IN US THE IDEAS OF SENSE, ARE CALLED THE LAWS OF NATURE”

“what deserves the first place in our studies is the consideration of GOD and our DUTY”

“As liars, by the frequent repetition of their lies, come at last to remember them”

“When the imagination, from any extraordinary ferment of the blood and spirits, acquires such a vivacity as disorders all its powers and faculties, there is no means of distinguishing betwixt truth and falshood”

“reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas”

“they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement”

“The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations”

“I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am placed in my philosophy, and fancy myself some strange uncouth monster”

“Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium”

“I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends”

“Where reason is lively, and mixes itself with some propensity, it ought to be assented to”

“the minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each others emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated”

“Morality, therefore, is more properly felt than judged of”

“As for my own part, I have most carefully inquired of those who use both the Syriac and Greek languages, and have asked them about this matter; but there was not one of them who could add anything to what I have mentioned”

“Now the Small-Pox arises when the blood putrefies and ferments, so that the superfluous vapours are thrown out of it”

“by a continued fever, pain in the back, itching in the nose, and terrors in sleep.”

“the inquietude, nausea, and anxiety are more frequent in the Measles than in the Small-Pox ; while, on the other hand, the pain in the back is more peculiar to the Small-Pox than to the Measles”

“As soon as the symptoms of the Small-Pox appear, drop rose-water into the eyes from time to time ; and wash the face with cold water several times in the day, and sprinkle the eyes with the same.”

“When the pustules of the Small-Pox are white, large, distinct, few in number, and easy in coming out”

“The safest kind of Measles is that where the redness is not very deep”

“and to HIM Who hath given us understanding to accomplish the work be praise and glory without end, even as HE is most worthy and deserving thereof.”

“In fact, how can they, if virtue has only one eternal standard?”

“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience”

“Taught from their infancy, that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”

“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners, time to restore to them their lost dignity”

“I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.”

“Women might certainly study the art of healing, and be physicians as well as nurses.”

“day schools for particular ages should be established by government, in which boys and girls might be educated together.”

“Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtuous, as men become more so”

“the commonest things, such as lie within everybody's grasp, are more valuable than the riches which so many mortals sigh and struggle after.”

“glad as my nature is, I am partly made of tears as well as smiles.”

“By the time you have stood there as long as I did, you will begin to learn patience!”

“Providence put me here, I hope, among other reasons, in order that I may make you what amends I can for the inhospitality of my neighbors.”

“But if thy faith had not helped me, I should never have waited for Pegasus, and never have gone up above the clouds, and never have conquered the terrible Chimæra.”

“The Congress is not permitted to abdicate or to transfer to others the essential legislative functions with which it is thus vested.”

“So far as the poultry here in question is concerned, the flow in interstate commerce had ceased.”

“Otherwise, as we have said, there would be virtually no limit to the federal power, and for all practical purposes we should have a completely centralized government.”

“Activities local in their immediacy do not become interstate and national because of distant repercussions.”

“By contrast, the language of § 17(a)(2), which prohibits any person from obtaining money or property "by means of any untrue statement of a material fact or any omission to state a material fact," is devoid of any suggestion whatsoever of a scienter requirement.”

“But it is not this Court that "drives a wedge"; Congress has done that.”

“An injunction is a drastic remedy, not a mild prophylactic, and should not be obtained against one acting in good faith.”

“If the Commission is denied the ability effectively to nip in the bud the misrepresentations and deceptions that its investigations have revealed, honest investors will be the ones who suffer.”

“I can agree with the Court that the language of the statutes is the starting point of analysis, but at least in present circumstances I strongly disagree with the conclusion that it is the ending point as well.”

“The place of religion in our society is an exalted one, achieved through a long tradition of reliance on the home, the church and the inviolable citadel of the individual heart and mind.”

“But untutored devotion to the concept of neutrality can lead to invocation or approval of results which partake not simply of that noninterference and noninvolvement with the religious which the Constitution commands, but of a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious.”

“It is, I think, a fallacious oversimplification to regard these two provisions as establishing a single constitutional standard of 'separation of church and state,' which can be mechanically applied in every case to delineate the required boundaries between government and religion.”

“A road's a kind of holy thing,”

“The question in this case is what standard of proof is required by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution in a civil proceeding brought under state law to commit an individual involuntarily for an indefinite period to a state mental hospital.”

“At one time or another every person exhibits some abnormal behavior which might be perceived by some as symptomatic of a mental or emotional disorder, but which is in fact within a range of conduct that is generally acceptable.”

“The subtleties and nuances of psychiatric diagnosis render certainties virtually beyond reach in most situations.”

“The essence of federalism is that states must be free to develop a variety of solutions to problems and not be forced into a common, uniform mold.”

“Today is a day for mourning and remembering.”

“But they, the Challenger Seven, were aware of the dangers, but overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly.”

“We've grown used to wonders in this century. It's hard to dazzle us.”

“I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery.”

“Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue.”

“Well, today we can say of the Challenger crew: Their dedication was, like Drake's, complete.”

“Dat truck dah is _trash;_ en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren’s en makes ’em ashamed.”

“We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”

“You can’t pray a lie—I found that out.”

“Human beings _can_ be awful cruel to one another.”

“WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him.”

“A LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face.”

“A FATHER had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves.”

“Curiouser and curiouser!”

“But if I’m not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I?”

“we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”

“Then you should say what you mean,”

“Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”

“it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

“Sentence first—verdict afterwards.”

“You’re nothing but a pack of cards!”

“The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.”

“We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk.”

“To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier.”

“Night came down swiftly over the equatorial forest.”

“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man”

“The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation”

“All the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, _Relations of Ideas_, and _Matters of Fact”

“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life”

“nor has rhubarb always proved a purge, or opium a soporific to every one, who has taken these medicines”

“A man in health possesses more of it than one languishing with sickness. We are more master of our thoughts in the morning than in the evening: Fasting, than after a full meal”

“Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular”

“A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence”

“If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he relates; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion”

“Nature is always too strong for principle”

“Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion”

“The Candle that is set up in us shines bright enough for all our purposes”

“For they do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning, but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths; and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles”

“a man who is very sober, and of a right understanding in all other things, may in one particular be as frantic as any in Bedlam”

“For the colour and taste of opium are, as well as its soporific or anodyne virtues, mere powers, depending on its primary qualities”

“it is but a supposed I know not what, to support those ideas we call accidents”

“every one sees he would be the same PERSON with the prince, accountable only for the prince’s actions: but who would say it was the same MAN”

“But is not a man drunk and sober the same person? why else is he punished for the fact he commits when drunk, though he be never afterwards conscious of it”

“use the consolations of reason in this case, and you were as good preach ease to one on the rack, and hope to allay, by rational discourses, the pain of his joints tearing asunder”

“A friend of mine knew one perfectly cured of madness by a very harsh and offensive operation”

“though in that chamber he could dance excellently well, yet it was only whilst that trunk was there”

“If a comparison were required to express my idea of the science of life, I should say that it is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.”

“The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.”

“all such theories are false. They are only partial and provisional truths which are necessary to us, as steps on which we rest, so as to go on with investigation”

“The truly scientific spirit, then, should make us modest and kindly.”

“The principle of medical and surgical morality, therefore, consists in never performing on man an experiment which might be harmful to him to any extent, even though the result might be highly advantageous to science, i.e., to the health of others.”

“Have we the right to make experiments on animals and vivisect them? As for me, I think we have this right, wholly and absolutely.”

“I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but the true sanctuary of medical science is a laboratory”

“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it’s such an interesting world”

“Dear old world,” she murmured, “you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you”

“The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road”

“I fell under the influences of a definite creed, and received into my intellect impressions of dogma, which, through God's mercy, have never been effaced or obscured.”

“By those great words of the ancient Father, the theory of the _Via Media_ was absolutely pulverised.”

“Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.”

“a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”

“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.”

“that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.”

“Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on”

“Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks”

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”

“Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?”

“Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814.”

“Passepartout, a surname which has clung to me because I have a natural aptness for going out of one business into another.”

“He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age.”

“it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects”

“Groundbreaking, innovative, or even brilliant discovery does not by itself satisfy the §101 inquiry.”

“That may be so, but the lab technician unquestionably creates something new when cDNA is made.”

“We merely hold that genes and the information they encode are not patent eligible under §101 simply because they have been isolated from the surrounding genetic material.”

“It suffices for me to affirm, having studied the opinions below and the expert briefs presented here, that the portion of DNA isolated from its natural state sought to be patented is identical to that portion of the DNA in its natural state; and that complementary DNA (cDNA) is a synthetic creation not normally present in nature.”

“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.”

“Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.”

“There is no defence or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.”

“It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercises of these privileges.”

“The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house.”

“the cloud had a silver lining, as it gave me the feeling that I was doing something for my world--our family.”

“The nonjusticiability of a political question is primarily a function of the separation of powers.”

“Deciding whether a matter has in any measure been committed by the Constitution to another branch of government, or whether the action of that branch exceeds whatever authority has been committed, is itself a delicate exercise in constitutional interpretation, and is a responsibility of this Court as ultimate interpreter of the Constitution.”

“In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.”

“The question thus presented is, we think, of great importance, but not of much difficulty.”

“If these propositions be correct, the fifth amendment must be understood as restraining the power of the General Government, not as applicable to the States.”

“These amendments demanded security against the apprehended encroachments of the General Government — not against those of the local governments.”

“It is not enough that a statement is false or incomplete, if the misrepresented fact is otherwise insignificant.”

“The modern securities markets, literally involving millions of shares changing hands daily, differ from the face-to-face transactions contemplated by early fraud cases, and our understanding of Rule 10b-5's reliance requirement must encompass these differences.”

“Yet today, the Court embraces this theory with the sweeping confidence usually reserved for more mature legal doctrines.”

“But with no staff economists, no experts schooled in the "efficient-capital-market hypothesis," no ability to test the validity of empirical market studies, we are not well equipped to embrace novel constructions of a statute based on contemporary microeconomic theory.”

“We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility.”

“We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun.”

“We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground;”

“The big hand of the clock is at 12. The little hand is at 7. It is seven o'clock. It is bedtime for Frances.”

“every great philosophy up till now has consisted of--namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious auto-biography”

“A living thing seeks above all to DISCHARGE its strength--life itself is WILL TO POWER; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent RESULTS thereof”

“a thought comes when "it" wishes, and not when "I" wish”

“Wherever the religious neurosis has appeared on the earth so far, we find it connected with three dangerous prescriptions as to regimen: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence”

“I did that," says my memory. "I could not have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually--the memory yields”

“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”

“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology”

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night”

“skepticism is the most spiritual expression of a certain many-sided physiological temperament, which in ordinary language is called nervous debility and sickliness”

“The discipline of suffering, of GREAT suffering--know ye not that it is only THIS discipline that has produced all the elevations of humanity hitherto”

“There is MASTER-MORALITY and SLAVE-MORALITY”

“Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men”

“the negro”

“Struck dead by an angel of God. Yet the angel must hang”

“God bless Captain Vere”

“The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it”

“I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift up your feet when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.”

“All she did—it seemed a small thing—was to toss down on the table a golden apple.”

“Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.”

“Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!”

“I have a great deal of difficulty in beginning to write my portion of these pages, for I know I am not clever.”

“He wos wery good to me, he wos!”

“The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself.”

“Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, right reverends and wrong reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.”

“In Bleak House I have purposely dwelt upon the romantic side of familiar things.”

“There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy.”

“The curving leaves seemed to be hiding something; the blind stem cut into the air as if no wind could ever shake it.”

“My name is Raoul Duquette. I am twenty-six years old and a Parisian, a true Parisian.”

“It is only the wind shaking the house, rattling the windows, banging a piece of iron on the roof and making her bed tremble.”

“And then, after six years, she saw him again.”

“Deep, deep, he sank into the silence, staring at the tree and waiting for the voice that came floating, falling, until he felt himself enfolded.”

“Because of an hereditary recklessness, I have been playing always a losing game since my childhood.”

“Kiyo has been praising me as unselfish and straight, but she is a person of sterling qualities far more than I whom she praises.”

“Just think,—if the honest does not win, what else is there in this world that will win?”

“They seem to believe that one must do wrong in order to succeed.”

“Master Darling is simple and straight like a split bamboo by disposition,” it says, “only too explosive.”

“A man deserves no confidence unless he is as straight as the bamboo.”

“So Kiyo’s grave is in the Yogen temple at Kobinata.”

“In approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the Amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when Plessy v. Ferguson was written.”

“Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.”

“Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities? We believe that it does.”

“There can be no doubt that so far as procedure is concerned the rights of the patient are most carefully considered”

“We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives.”

“The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.”

“Mr. Justice BUTLER dissents.”

“He first raised up for the race of men The heaven as a roof, the holy Ruler.”

“Then the world below, the Ward of mankind, The Lord everlasting, at last established As a home for man, the Almighty Lord.”

“Cædmon, sing me something.”

“his instruction in poetry was not at all from men, nor through the aid of any man, but it was through divine inspiration and as a gift from God that he received the power of song”

“just as a clean beast chews on a cud, transformed it into the sweetest of poetry”

“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.”

“But nobody wanted any caps that morning. Nobody wanted even a red cap.”

“slowly, slowly, so as not to upset his caps.”

“Never you be led astray by hasty jedgments, Dan”

“So I'm here to say I'm sorry”

“The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord! I was--I am a minister of the Gospel. Leave him to me”

“The boys they make believe all the time till they've cheated 'emselves into bein' men, an' so till they die--pretendin' an' pretendin”

“I can handle men, of course, and I'm no fool along my own lines, but--but--I can't compete with the man who has been taught”

“Master--man. Man--master," said he. "You remember, Dan Troop, what I said? On the _We're Here”

“In Styria, we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle, or schloss.”

“Lord hear all good prayers for us, for Jesus’ sake.”

“There! That comes of strangling people with hymns!”

“A strange melancholy was stealing over me”

“The vampire is prone to be fascinated with an engrossing vehemence, resembling the passion of love, by particular persons.”

“A strong man sails by ash breeze!”

“For the glory of wealth and beauty is fleeting and perishable; that of intellectual power is illustrious and immortal.”

“At first the love of money, and then that of power, began to prevail, and these became, as it were, the sources of every evil.”

“For his guilty mind, at peace with neither gods nor men, found no comfort either waking or sleeping; so effectually did conscience desolate his tortured spirit.”

“When the mind is freely exerted, its reasoning is sound; but passion, if it gain possession of it, becomes its tyrant, and reason is powerless.”

“for to lavish the property of others is called generosity, and audacity in wickedness is called heroism; and hence the state is reduced to the brink of ruin.”

“he was more desirous to be, than to appear, virtuous; and thus, the less he courted popularity, the more it pursued him.”

“for by concord even small states are increased, but by discord, even the greatest fall to nothing.”

“That it was a venal city, and would soon perish, if it could but find a purchaser!”

“The millions of property which have been invested in railroads and canals, upon lines of travel which had been before occupied by turnpike corporations, will be put in jeopardy.”

“We shall be thrown back to the improvements of the last century, and obliged to stand still, until the claims of the old turnpike corporations shall be satisfied; and they shall consent to permit these states to avail themselves of the lights of modern science, and to partake of the benefit of those improvements which are now adding to the wealth and prosperity, and the convenience and comfort, of every other part of the civilized world.”

“It is a principle of common sense, as well as of law, that when a thing is granted, whatever is necessary to its enjoyment, is granted also.”

“This is an admonition, in my humble judgment, very fit to be remembered and acted upon by all judges, who are called upon to interpose between the government and the citizen, in cases of public grants.”

“Where's Papa going with that ax?”

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”

“This case concerns the legal effect of the petitioner's silence.”

“In sum, the evidence shows beyond all doubt that Chiarella, working literally in the shadows of the warning signs in the printshop misappropriated—stole to put it bluntly—valuable nonpublic information entrusted to him in the utmost confidence.”

“The Court continues to pursue a course, charted in certain recent decisions, designed to transform § 10(b) from an intentionally elastic "catchall" provision to one that catches relatively little of the misbehavior that all too often makes investment in securities a needlessly risky business for the uninitiated investor.”

“When I was five years old I had such a great sorrow! I hardly know if I have had a greater since.”

“What kind of a night is this, when the dogs do not bite, the sheep are not scared, the staff does not kill, or the fire scorch?”

“In place of it he built a sanctuary to the new-born God-Child, and called it Heaven’s Altar”

“There are things which are drier than the desert sands, but there is nothing more barren than the human heart.”

“What would happen to any one of us who undertook to compete with one who paints with sunbeams and blows the breath of life into dead clay?”

“Even if I am little and weak, I can still do something for this poor tortured one,”

“The bees and the lilies have requited his good deeds,”

“cried with one voice, and lifted up their hands, saying: “We consent, we consent!””

“no man there was of such hardihood but his flesh trembled: and it was no wonder, for never was so great an enterprise undertaken by any people since the creation of the world.”

“because covetousness, which is the root of all evil, let and hindered them.”

“But full oft do the good suffer for the sins of the wicked.”

“The average citizen must be a good citizen if our republics are to succeed.”

“The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.”

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.”

“But above mind and above body stands character--the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor.”

“In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction.”

“I believe that a man must be a good patriot before he can be, and as the only possible way of being, a good citizen of the world.”

“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.”

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.”

“I saw something nasty in the woodshed!”

“law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.”

“the principal aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights, which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature”

“THE right of personal security consists in a person's legal and uninterrupted enjoyment of his life, his limbs, his body, his health, and his reputation.”

“LIFE is the immediate gift of God, a right inherent by nature in every individual”

“this spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted in our constitution, and rooted even in our very soil”

“THE third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of property; which consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all his acquisitions, without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land.”

“the king himself can do no wrong; since it would be a great weakness and absurdity in any system of positive law, to define any possible wrong, without any possible redress.”

“A lunatic is indeed properly one that hath lucid intervals; sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not, and that frequently depending upon the change of the moon.”

“You might as well live.”

“Why is it no one ever sent me yet / One perfect limousine, do you suppose?”

“To Carthage I came, where there sang all around me in my ears a cauldron of unholy loves”

“At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death”

“Take up and read; Take up and read”

“Too late loved I Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! too late I loved Thee”

“I have entered upon a performance which is without example, whose accomplishment will have no imitator. I mean to present my fellow-mortals with a man in all the integrity of nature; and this man shall be myself”

“let each in his turn expose with equal sincerity the failings, the wanderings of his heart, and, if he dare, aver, I was better than that man”

“my birth cost my mother her life, and was the first of my misfortunes”

“I did not fear punishment, but I dreaded shame: I dreaded it more than death, more than the crime, more than all the world”

“My arteries began beating so violently that I not only felt their motion, but even heard it, particularly that of the carotids, attended by a loud noise in my ears”

“Till now, I had been a great sleeper, but a total privation of repose, with other alarming symptoms which have accompanied it, even to this time, persuaded me I had but a short time to live”

“It is certain my disorder was in a great measure hypochondriacal”

“I could not read the description of any malady without thinking it mine, and, had I not been already indisposed, I am certain I should have become so from this study”

“These gentlemen understood nothing of my illness, therefore concluded I could not be ill”

“I was in an agitation which approached a delirium”

“A defect in the bladder caused me, during my early years, to suffer an almost continual retention of urine”

“I followed this indication, and determined to cure myself or die without the aid of physicians and medicine”

“At length, notwithstanding all I could say and do, the physician triumphed, and the child died of hunger”

“the most important point of excellence which any form of government can possess is to promote the virtue and intelligence of the people themselves.”

“the ideally best form of government is that in which the sovereignty, or supreme controlling power in the last resort, is vested in the entire aggregate of the community”

“Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government”

“to be at once the nation's Committee of Grievances and its Congress of Opinions”

“In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately.”

“I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person should participate in the suffrage without being able to read, write, and, I will add, perform the common operations of arithmetic.”

“I consider it to be as entirely irrelevant to political rights as difference in height or in the color of the hair.”

“Free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities.”

“How naturally one falls back into the phraseology of Cranford! There, economy was always “elegant,” and money-spending always “vulgar and ostentatious”; a sort of sour-grapeism which made us very peaceful and satisfied.”

“Get her a flannel waistcoat and flannel drawers, ma’am, if you wish to keep her alive.”

“God pardon me, if ever I have spoken contemptuously to the Captain!”

“he was always in scrapes; he was too easy.”

“only I would rather exchange my gold for the note, if you please”

“Inasmuch as the reality of the concept of freedom is proved by an apodeictic law of practical reason, it is the keystone of the whole system of pure reason, even the speculative”

“He judges, therefore, that he can do a certain thing because he is conscious that he ought, and he recognizes that he is free”

“the perfect accordance of the will with the moral law is holiness, a perfection of which no rational being of the sensible world is capable at any moment of his existence.”

“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind”

“Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected”

“We here propose to do just what COPERNICUS did in attempting to explain the celestial movements”

“The light dove cleaving in free flight the thin air, whose resistance it feels, might imagine that her movements would be far more free and rapid in airless space”

“The “I think” must accompany all my representations, for otherwise something would be represented in me which could not be thought”

“their representations may very well be the mere products of the imagination (in dreams as well as in madness”

“But this land is an island, and enclosed by nature herself within unchangeable limits. It is the land of truth (an attractive word), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the region of illusion”

“A hundred real dollars contain no more than a hundred possible dollars”

“scepticism is merely a means of awakening reason from its dogmatic dreams and exciting it to a more careful investigation into its own powers and pretensions”

“1. WHAT CAN I KNOW? 2. WHAT OUGHT I TO DO? 3. WHAT MAY I HOPE”

“But we do not think the Due Process Clause requires the State to repose judgment on these matters with anyone but the patient herself.”

“Because our notions of liberty are inextricably entwined with our idea of physical freedom and self-determination, the Court has often deemed state incursions into the body repugnant to the interests protected by the Due Process Clause.”

“But the State has no legitimate general interest in someone's life, completely abstracted from the interest of the person living that life, that could outweigh the person's choice to avoid medical treatment.”

“In my view, the Constitution requires the State to care for Nancy Cruzan's life in a way that gives appropriate respect to her own best interests.”

“Because death is so profoundly personal, public reflection upon it is unusual.”

“When I began to gather these stories together, it is of you I was thinking, that you would like to have them and to be reading them.”

“My love to you, O land to the east, and it goes ill with me to leave you; for it is pleasant are your bays and your harbours and your wide flowery plains and your green-sided hills; and little need was there for us to leave you.”

“Dear to me was your beautiful ruddiness; dear to me your comely form; dear to me your clear grey eye; dear to me your wisdom and your talk.”

“it was said of him that he could tell what a person's sickness was by looking at the smoke of the house he was in; and he knew by looking at a wound what sort the person was that gave it.”

“True; all my elegances are within.”

“Truth, Independence, are my fluttering plumes.”

“Nothing more solemn than a tear--sublimer;”

“A rose-dot on the 'i' of 'adoration,'”

“A nobler pain than hunger,--'tis of the soul, not of the body!”

“I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!”

“But who fights ever hoping for success? I fought for lost cause, and for fruitless quest!”

“I was booked to make a mistake. I have lived too long in foreign parts”

“Barkis is willin”

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”

“Janet! Donkeys”

“I am well aware that I am the umblest person going”

“O Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed”

“Whence it is manifest that of all things that are ordered to secure blessings to men, peace is the best.”

“the first principle of our freedom is freedom of will, which many have in their mouth, but few indeed understand.”

“this liberty, or this principle of all our liberty, is the greatest gift bestowed by God on mankind”

“Oh, race of mankind! what storms must toss thee, what losses must thou endure, what shipwrecks must buffet thee, as long as thou, a beast of many heads, strivest after contrary things.”

“For the dignity of the Empire was what Constantine could not alienate, nor the Church receive.”

“Two ends, therefore, have been laid down by the ineffable providence of God for man to aim at”

“Let, therefore, Cæsar be reverent to Peter, as the first-born son should be reverent to his father”

“It is to stamp a deep impression on the mind, of the issues of good and ill doing here--of the real worlds of pain and joy.”

“Naturale autem est homini ut sit animal sociale et politicum, in multitudine vivens, magis etiam quam omnia alia animalia”

“Some subterranean stream found an outlet here, was released from darkness. The result was grass and trees and flowers and human life”

“nearly everything great which comes into being does so in spite of something--in spite of sorrow or suffering, poverty, destitution, physical weakness, depravity, passion, or a thousand other handicaps.”

“a delicate self-mastery by which any inner deterioration, any biological decay was kept concealed from the eyes of the world”

“For beauty, my Phaedrus, beauty alone is both lovely and visible at once; it is, mark me, the only form of the spiritual which we can receive through the senses.”

“Denied and glossed over, death was eating its way along the narrow streets”

“In the light of the sweet youthfulness which had done this to him, he detested his aging body.”

“It feels sympathy with the precipice, it is the precipice.”

“Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.”

“A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.”

“Having once surrendered blind belief, it is impossible to return to it, for the essence of such belief is to be unconscious of itself.”

“I owed my deliverance, not to a concatenation of proofs and arguments, but to the light which God caused to penetrate into my heart—the light which illuminates the threshold of all knowledge.”

“they judge the truth according to its professors instead of judging its professors by the standard of the truth.”

“Honey does not become impure because it may happen to have been placed in the glass which the surgeon uses for cupping purposes.”

“To define drunkenness, to know that it is caused by vapours which rise from the stomach and cloud the seat of intelligence, is quite a different thing to being drunk.”

“I saw that Sufism consists in experiences rather than in definitions”

“The mischief is in the heart, and has communicated itself to the whole organism; there is no hope unless the cause of his grievous sadness be arrested.”

“External objects press in upon him; passions solicit him; his philosophical melancholy dissipates”

“You will find it to be nothing but one great machine, subdivided into an infinite number of lesser machines”

“Many worlds might have been botched and bungled, throughout an eternity, ere this system was struck out”

“The world plainly resembles more an animal or a vegetable, than it does a watch or a knitting-loom”

“they are nothing in comparison of those which arise within ourselves, from the distempered condition of our mind and body”

“Remorse, shame, anguish, rage, disappointment, anxiety, fear, dejection, despair; who has ever passed through life without cruel inroads from these tormentors”

“Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses”

“We are terrified, not bribed to the continuance of our existence”

“Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil”

“But what racking pains, on the other hand, arise from gouts, gravels, megrims, toothaches, rheumatisms, where the injury to the animal machinery is either small or incurable”

“The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, impregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children”

“To be a philosophical Sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian”

“I cannot but think, that PHILO's principles are more probable than DEMEA's; but that those of CLEANTHES approach still nearer to the truth”

“Congress thus recognized that the relevant distinction was not between living and inanimate things, but between products of nature, whether living or not, and human-made inventions.”

“What is more important is that we are without competence to entertain these arguments—either to brush them aside as fantasies generated by fear of the unknown, or to act on them.”

“The patent laws attempt to reconcile this Nation's deep seated antipathy to monopolies with the need to encourage progress.”

“It is the role of Congress, not this Court, to broaden or narrow the reach of the patent laws. This is especially true where, as here, the composition sought to be patented uniquely implicates matters of public concern.”

“Imposing a duty to disclose or abstain solely because a person knowingly receives material nonpublic information from an insider and trades on it could have an inhibiting influence on the role of market analysts, which the SEC itself recognizes is necessary to the preservation of a healthy market.”

“As the facts of this case clearly indicate, the tippers were motivated by a desire to expose the fraud.”

“This innovation excuses a knowing and intentional violation of an insider's duty to shareholders if the insider does not act from a motive of personal gain.”

“Although Secrist's general motive to expose the Equity Funding fraud was laudable, the means he chose were not.”

“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess”

“The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations”

“resolved no longer to seek any other science than the knowledge of myself, or of the great book of the world”

“imitating in this the example of travelers who, when they have lost their way in a forest, ought not to wander from side to side, far less remain in one place, but proceed constantly towards the same side in as straight a line as possible”

“My _third_ maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world”

“the mind by which I am what I am, is wholly distinct from the body, and is even more easily known than the latter”

“I need only mention in reply what has been written by a physician of England, who has the honor of having broken the ice on this subject”

“Such persons will look upon this body as a machine made by the hands of God, which is incomparably better arranged, and adequate to movements more admirable than is any machine of human invention”

“they could never use words or other signs arranged in such a manner as is competent to us in order to declare our thoughts to others”

“and thus render ourselves the lords and possessors of nature”

“for the mind is so intimately dependent upon the condition and relation of the organs of the body, that if any means can ever be found to render men wiser and more ingenious than hitherto, I believe that it is in medicine they must be sought for”

“we could free ourselves from an infinity of maladies of body as well as of mind, and perhaps also even from the debility of age”

“this is the faculty of improvement; a faculty which, as circumstances offer, successively unfolds all the other faculties, and resides among us not only in the species, but in the individuals that compose it”

“With the poet, it is gold and silver, but with the philosopher it is iron and corn, which have civilized men, and ruined mankind.”

“the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in the opinion of others”

“Resolve not to obey, and you are free.”

“I do not advise you to shake or overturn him, forbear only to support him, and you will see him, like a great Colossus from which the Base is taken away, fall with his own Weight, and be broken in pieces.”

“From whence has he so many Eyes to watch you, if you do not give them?”

“So the first Reason of this voluntary Servitude is Custom, like the generous Steeds who at first bite the Bitt, but afterwards play with it”

“Publick Theatres, Plays, Farces, Shews, Gladiators, Foreign Wild Beasts, Medals, Pictures, and suck like Amusements, were to the Ancients the Decoys of Servitude, the Price of their Liberty, and the Instruments of Tyranny.”

“as we say, to cleave Wood, Wedges are made of the Wood itself”

“Friendship is a sacred Word, a holy Thing; it never subsists but between good Men, nor commences but by mutual Esteem”

“Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.”

“Never say about anything, I have lost it, but say I have restored it.”

“You may fetter my leg, but my will not even Zeus himself can overpower.”

“The beginning of philosophy, to him at least who enters on it in the right way and by the door is a consciousness of his own weakness and inability about necessary things”

“Now is the time for the fever. Let it be borne well.”

“it is in this conflict that all laws favourable to freedom have their origin”

“since we can have no surer sign of the decay of a province than to see Divine worship held therein in contempt.”

“Nor is it without reason that the voice of the people has been likened to the voice of God;”

“this assuredly results from the baseness of those who have interpreted our religion to accord with indolence and ease rather than with valour.”

“Now the way to renew them is, as I have said, to bring them back to their beginnings”

“for when the entire safety of our country is at stake, no consideration of what is just or unjust, merciful or cruel, praiseworthy or shameful, must intervene.”

“But a conclusion that the Second Amendment protects an individual right does not tell us anything about the scope of that right.”

“The second independent reason is that the protection the Amendment provides is not absolute.”

“I would simply adopt such an interest-balancing inquiry explicitly.”

“On the question of abortion, the Constitution is therefore neither pro-life nor pro-choice.”

“Instead, the Framers defined rights in general terms, to permit future evolution in their scope and meaning.”

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul”

“My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoöphagous (life-eating) maniac”

“We want no proofs; we ask none to believe us”

“And an act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty or property, merely because he came himself or brought his property into a particular Territory of the United States, and who had committed no offence against the laws, could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law.”

“Upon these considerations, it is the opinion of the court that the act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void; and that neither Dred Scott himself, nor any of his family, were made free by being carried into this territory; even if they had been carried there by the owner, with the intention of becoming a permanent resident.”

“These colored persons were not only included in the body of 'the people of the United States,' by whom the Constitution was ordained and established, but in at least five of the States they had the power to act, and doubtless did act, by their suffrages, upon the question of its adoption.”

“Praised be my Lord for our sister water, who is very serviceable unto us and humble and precious and clean”

“Praised be my Lord for our sister, the death of the body, from which no man escapeth”

“The doctors, having exhausted the therapeutic arsenal of the time, decided to resort to cauterization; it was decided to draw a rod of white-hot iron across his forehead”

“Brother fire," he said, "you are beautiful above all creatures; be favorable to me in this hour; you know how much I have always loved you; be then courteous to-day”

“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.”

“'Men work together,' I told him from the heart, 'Whether they work together or apart.'”

“He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."”

“"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in." "I should have called it Something you somehow haven't to deserve."”

“He says the best way out is always through.”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”

“Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.”

“The doctor put him in the dark of ether.”

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—'Thou mayest'—that gives a choice.”

“it was the highest commendation of his doctrine with all men, that he taught nothing that he did not practise in his life among his brethren”

“And I beseech Thee, good Jesus, that to whom Thou hast graciously granted sweetly to drink in the words of Thy knowledge, Thou wilt also vouchsafe in Thy loving-kindness that he may one day come to Thee, the Fountain of all wisdom, and appear for ever before Thy face.”

“Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his Country's Blood.”

“Fair Science frown'd not on his humble Birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.”

“(There they alike in trembling Hope repose) The Bosom of his Father and his God.”

“Like three impressions of the same seal, the word ought to produce the idea, and the idea to be a picture of the fact.”

“we cannot improve the language of any science without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science, without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.”

“I have imposed upon myself, as a law, never to advance but from what is known to what is unknown; never to form any conclusion which is not an immediate consequence necessarily flowing from observation and experiment”

“they act with regard to us as simple substances, and we ought never to suppose them compounded until experiment and observation has proved them to be so.”

“We cannot deny that this name appears somewhat extraordinary; but this must be the case with all new terms, which cannot be expected to become familiar until they have been some time in use.”

“We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment”

“By means of light, the benevolence of the Deity hath filled the surface of the earth with organization, sensation, and intelligence.”

“A point is that which has position but not dimensions.”

“A line is length without breadth.”

“Things which are equal to the same, or to equals, are equal to each other.”

“The whole is greater than its part.”

“Euclid’s object was to teach Theoretical and not Practical Geometry, and the only things he postulates are the drawing of right lines and the describing of circles.”

“the sum of the three internal angles is equal to two right angles.”

“In a right-angled triangle (ABC) the square on the hypotenuse (AB) is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides (AC, BC).”

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

“It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself!”

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken”

“When the power, prestige and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain.”

“The history of man is inseparable from the history of religion.”

“On the contrary, I think that to deny the wish of these school children to join in reciting this prayer is to deny them the opportunity of sharing in the spiritual heritage of our Nation.”

“he must learn to recognise the beauty in the arts, sciences, virtues; then these severed and particular forms must be brought under the one principle”

“Thus, despite the broad view of the Rule advanced by the Commission in this case, its scope cannot exceed the power granted the Commission by Congress under § 10(b).”

“When a statute speaks so specifically in terms of manipulation and deception, and of implementing devices and contrivances the commonly understood terminology of intentional wrongdoing and when its history reflects no more expansive intent, we are quite unwilling to extend the scope of the statute to negligent conduct.”

“Perhaps the Court is right, but I doubt it.”

“It seems to me, however, that an investor can be victimized just as much by negligent conduct as by positive deception, and that it is not logical to drive a wedge between the two, saying that Congress clearly intended the one but certainly not the other.”

“The critical importance of the auditing accountant's role in insuring full disclosure cannot be overestimated.”

“Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves”

“MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other”

“Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible”

“It is as natural to die, as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful, as the other”

“REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out”

“Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed”

“HE THAT hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief”

“you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend”

“for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves”

“a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health”

“As for the passions, and studies of the mind; avoid envy, anxious fears; anger fretting inwards; subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys and exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated”

“Physicians are, some of them, so pleasing and conformable to the humor of the patient, as they press not the true cure of the disease; and some other are so regular, in proceeding according to art for the disease, as they respect not sufficiently the condition of the patient”

“Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like”

“Thus, reader, myself am the matter of my book: there’s no reason thou shouldst employ thy leisure about so frivolous and vain a subject”

“The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die has unlearned to serve”

“the very sight of another’s pain materially pains me, and I often usurp the sensations of another person”

“he found the same operation and effect that those do who have taken one indeed”

“If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I”

“every one gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country”

“When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me”

“This fancy will be more certainly understood by interrogation: “What do I know?” as I bear it with the emblem of a balance”

“I am in conflict with the worst, the most sudden, the most painful, the most mortal, and the most irremediable of all diseases”

“every man carries the entire form of human condition”

“I study myself more than any other subject; ‘tis my metaphysic, my physic”

“When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep”

“when seated upon the most elevated throne in the world, we are but seated upon our breech”

“in his unrelenting cruelty man is in no way inferior to the tiger and the hyaena”

“In every man there dwells, first and foremost, a colossal egoism, which breaks the bounds of right and justice with the greatest freedom”

“in hatred too, which stands to anger like a chronic to an acute disease, a man may indulge with the greatest delight”

“man is the only animal which causes pain to others without any further purpose than just to cause it”

“it is the will to live, which, more and more embittered by the constant sufferings of existence, seeks to alleviate its own torment by causing torment in others”

“But it is _Schadenfreude_, a mischievous delight in the misfortunes of others, which remains the worst trait in human nature”

“they are only masks, and, as a rule, behind the masks you will find moneymakers”

“A man's character, as my readers are aware, assuredly comes to him from his father”

“while our several actions are in no wise free, every man's individual character is to be regarded as a free act”

“The chief cause of intellectual diversity is to be found in the brain and nervous system”

“Compared with the Moral Law the State is a crutch instead of a limb, an automaton instead of a man”

“It is in their person that we become aware of human misery; we are filled with sympathy; and the result of this mood is general benevolence, philanthropy”

“Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge.”

“the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”

“I consider it is possible to convert men into republican machines.”

“The knowledge of things always preceeds the knowledge of words.”

“The rod is yet the principal instrument of governing them, and a school-master remains the only despot now known in free countries.”

“A kind rebuke, like fresh air in a fainting fit, is calculated to act upon a young mind with more effect, than stimulants of the greatest power”

“The equal share that every citizen has in the liberty, and the possible share he may have in the government of our country, make it necessary that our ladies should be qualified to a certain degree by a peculiar and suitable education, to concur in instructing their sons in the principles of liberty and government.”

“We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of christianity, by means of the bible”

“as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded”

“So great is the force of laws, and of particular forms of government, and so little dependence have they on the humours and tempers of men, that consequences almost as general and certain may sometimes be deduced from them, as any which the mathematical sciences afford us.”

“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”

“We are, therefore, to look upon all the vast apparatus of our government, as having ultimately no other object or purpose but the distribution of justice, or, in other words, the support of the twelve judges.”

“Factions subvert government, render laws impotent, and beget the fiercest animosities among men of the same nation, who ought to give mutual assistance and protection to each other.”

“Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are, therefore, the true sources of Superstition.”

“there is properly no history, only biography.”

“Travelling is a fool’s paradise.”

“PROP. XIII. The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body, in other words a certain mode of extension which actually exists, and nothing else”

“I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids”

“PROP. VI. Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavours to persist in its own being”

“II. Pleasure is the transition of a man from a less to a greater perfection”

“Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage”

“As I have heard tell of a certain Spanish poet, who had been seized with sickness, and though he recovered therefrom yet remained so oblivious of his past life, that he would not believe the plays and tragedies he had written to be his own”

“PROP. XLII. Mirth cannot be excessive, but is always good; contrariwise, Melancholy is always bad”

“But, in reality, Avarice, Ambition, Lust, &c., are species of madness, though they may not be reckoned among diseases”

“PROP. LIV. Repentance is not a virtue, or does not arise from reason; but he who repents of an action is doubly wretched or infirm”

“PROP. III. An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof”

“No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.”

“In fact, the undertones of the opinion, advocating complete and uncompromising separation of Church from State, seem utterly discordant with its conclusion, yielding support to their commingling in educational matters.”

“Not simply an established church, but any law respecting an establishment of religion, is forbidden.”

“The necessity must be actual and present; the invasion real, such as effectually closes the courts and deposes the civil administration.”

“We assent, fully, to all that is said, in the opinion, of the inestimable value of the trial by jury, and of the other constitutional safeguards of civil liberty.”

“We think that Congress had power, though not exercised, to authorize the military commission which was held in Indiana.”

“It is not enough to insist upon the necessity of experience, nor even of activity in experience.”

“I may be allowed to express my great satisfaction at finding, that the different parts, written at intervals during seven years, harmonize so well as they do.”

“the hope of obtaining electricity from ordinary magnetism, have stimulated me at various times to investigate experimentally the inductive effect of electric currents”

“The sensation upon the tongue, and the flash before the eyes, which I at first obtained only in a feeble degree (56.), have been since exalted by more powerful apparatus, so as to become even disagreeable.”

“The phenomena in the five kinds or species quoted, differ, not in their character but only in degree”

“Thus, 8 is the electro-chemical equivalent of oxygen, whether separating from hydrogen, or tin, or lead”

“an unknown man, Gregor Johann Mendel, had, alone, and unheeded, broken off from the rest--in the moment that Darwin was at work--and cut a way through.”

“It requires indeed some courage to undertake a labour of such far-reaching extent”

“The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used”

“The expression “recessive” has been chosen because the characters thereby designated withdraw or entirely disappear in the hybrids, but nevertheless reappear unchanged in their progeny”

“there is found, as between the number of forms with the dominant and recessive characters, an average ratio of 2·98 to 1, or 3 to 1.”

“Had Mendel’s work come into the hands of Darwin, it is not too much to say that the history of the development of evolutionary philosophy would have been very different from that which we have witnessed.”

“Each conception of life in which heredity bears a part--and which of them is exempt?--must change before the coming rush of facts.”

““Stuff your eyes with wonder,” he said, “live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.””

“Fallen angels who were not good enough to be saved, nor bad enough to be lost,”

“There was once a poor man who lived in the fertile glen of Aherlow, at the foot of the gloomy Galtee mountains, and he had a great hump on his back:”

“is an attendant fairy that follows the old families, and none but them, and wails before a death.”

“Witches and fairy doctors receive their power from opposite dynasties;”

“She was the idol of the people and the providence of the indigent.”

“he stood as firmly upon his one leg as the others on their two”

“We can live to be three hundred years old, but when we cease to exist here, we are turned into foam on the surface of the water”

“No clothes of the emperor's had ever had such a success as these.”

“he was so happy, and yet not at all proud.”

“There they both sat, grown up, and yet children — children in heart”

“when a star fell down a soul mounted up to God.”

“I want somebody to tame me; I am too independent”

“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”

“It was a small tube or trochar, with a lance passing down the inside; and Gabriel began to use it with a dexterity that would have graced a hospital-surgeon.”

“These somewhat pathetic evidences of a mind crazed with care and love”

“A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather.”

“You'll be free and independent, son, on a farm.”

“once for all, this drama is neither a fiction nor a romance!”

“Men and women for you must be nothing more than post-horses; take a fresh relay, and leave the last to drop by the roadside”

“There are no such things as principles; there are only events, and there are no laws but those of expediency”

“Not until you are dying do you know your children”

“You give them life; they give you your deathblow. You bring them into the world, and they send you out of it.”

“he was a good and worthy man, who never said one word louder than another; he never did any one any harm, and gave nobody any trouble.”

“A decent chemist is twenty times as useful as any poet.”

“they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of 'indifferent' nature; they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.”

“A good man, through obscurest aspiration, Has still an instinct of the one true way.”

“This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.”

“They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.”

“The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.”

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

“This Nation asks for action, and action now.”

“I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis--broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.”

“In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May He protect each and every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come.”

“Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”

“O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? in what city are we living? what constitution is ours?”

“purge the city of your presence; you will deliver me from a great fear, when there is a wall between me and you.”

“Now, your country, which is the common parent of all of us, hates and fears you”

“for you are not, O Catiline, one whom either shame can recall from infamy, or fear from danger, or reason from madness.”

“so this disease which is in the republic, if relieved by the punishment of this man, will only get worse and worse, as the rest will be still alive.”

“For London is like prison for children, especially if their relations are not rich.”

“It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.”

“I wish we were all as beautiful as the day”

“Robert was not proud of himself for having been so cross, and the others were not proud of him either.”

“there is only one safe way of taking things out of little children's eyes, and that is with your own soft wet tongue.”

“Father says we need never be afraid if we don't do anything wrong and always speak the truth.”

“They'd get hold of me, and they wouldn't wish silly things like you do, but real earnest things”

“The principle asserted is, that one legislature is competent to repeal any act which a former legislature was competent to pass; and that one legislature cannot abridge the powers of a succeeding legislature.”

“It would be indecent, in the extreme, upon a private contract, between two individuals, to enter into an inquiry respecting the corruption of the sovereign power of a state.”

“I do not hesitate to declare that a state does not possess the power of revoking its own grants. But I do it on a general principle, on the reason and nature of things: a principle which will impose laws even on the deity.”

“The security of a people against the misconduct of their rulers, must lie in the frequent recurrence to first principles, and the imposition of adequate constitutional restrictions.”

“This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made; but it was ever, is now, and ever shall be an ever-living Fire, with measures of it kindling, and measures going out.”

“War is the father of all and the king of all; and some he has made gods and some men, some bond and some free.”

“The way up and the way down is one and the same.”

“You cannot step twice into the same rivers; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you.”

“A man, when he gets drunk, is led by a beardless lad, tripping, knowing not where he steps, having his soul moist.”

“The dry soul is the wisest and best”

“Nature loves to hide.”

“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?”

“You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been”

“To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death”

“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world”

“The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials”

“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils”

“I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created”

“This was the commencement of a nervous fever which confined me for several months”

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous”

“Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful”

“I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together.”

“private Roman law was something to be described or to be discovered, not something to be enacted”

“Law, as a whole, was no less free from constraint than the market itself.”

“the Moon certainly does not possess a smooth and polished surface, but one rough and uneven, and, just like the face of the Earth itself, is everywhere full of vast protuberances, deep chasms, and sinuosities.”

“the Galaxy is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.”

“That it is both piously spoken, and prudently affirmed, That the Sacred Scripture can never lye, when ever its true meaning is understood”

“That the intention of the Holy Ghost, is to teach us how we shall go to Heaven, and not how Heaven goeth.”

“But that that self same God who hath indued us with Senses, Discourse, and Understanding hath intended, laying aside the use of these, to give the knowledg of those things by other means, which we may attain by these”

“for two truths can never contradict each other.”

“Aristotle says that "an iron ball of one hundred pounds falling from a height of one hundred cubits reaches the ground before a one-pound ball has fallen a single cubit." I say that they arrive at the same time.”

“Having observed this I came to the conclusion that in a medium totally devoid of resistance all bodies would fall with the same speed.”

“This imitation of the ancient Herculeses, Alexanders, Hannibals, Scipios, Caesars, and other such heroes, is quite contrary to the profession of the gospel of Christ”

“In brief, let me see thee an abyss and bottomless pit of knowledge”

“for Trinc is a panomphean word, that is, a word understood, used and celebrated by all nations, and signifies drink.”

“it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part might be avoided without excluding the air, by applying as a dressing some material capable of destroying the life of the floating particles.”

“As there appears to be no doubt regarding the cause of this change, the importance of the fact can hardly be exaggerated.”

“It is characteristic of science to reduce incessantly the number of unexplained phenomena.”

“we may say that fermentation is a result of life without air.”

“The Sciences gain by mutual support.”

“that the theory of spontaneous generation is chimerical”

“The antiseptic method I believe likely to be sovereign in the vast majority of cases.”

“I welcome with open arms the militant attack which has a method in doubting and whose rule of conduct has the motto "More light."”

“Commerce among the States cannot stop at the external boundary line of each State, but may be introduced into the interior.”

“The completely internal commerce of a State, then, may be considered as reserved for the State itself.”

“In every such case, the act of Congress or the treaty is supreme, and the law of the State, though enacted in the exercise of powers not controverted, must yield to it.”

“The State of New York maintains the Constitutionality of these laws, and their Legislature, their Council of Revision, and their Judges, have repeatedly concurred in this opinion.”

“Upon full reconsideration, we conclude that Betts v. Brady should be overruled.”

“This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.”

“He requires the guiding hand of counsel at every step in the proceedings against him.”

“It is a fundamental principle, long established, that the freedom of speech and of the press which is secured by the Constitution, does not confer an absolute right to speak or publish, without responsibility, whatever one may choose, or an unrestricted and unbridled license that gives immunity for every possible use of language and prevents the punishment of those who abuse this freedom.”

“The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement in the narrower sense is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result. Eloquence may set fire to reason.”

“If in the long run the beliefs expressed in proletarian dictatorship are destined to be accepted by the dominant forces of the community, the only meaning of free speech is that they should be given their chance and have their way.”

“I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery;”

“Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss.”

“I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!”

“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”

“Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!”

“It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;”

“The case is made difficult by respondents’ strong arguments that they will suffer irreparable harm because, despite a congressional finding to the contrary, marijuana does have valid therapeutic purposes.”

“Congress may regulate even noneconomic local activity if that regulation is a necessary part of a more general regulation of interstate commerce.”

“This case exemplifies the role of States as laboratories.”

“three or four poor women sitting at a door, in the sun, talking about the things of God”

“as if his book had been written out of my heart”

“if I were out of prison to-day, I would preach the Gospel again to-morrow, by the help of God.”

“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”

“In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”

“I lived rough, that you should live smooth; I worked hard, that you should be above work.”

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.”

“Take the pencil and write under my name, ‘I forgive her.’”

“O Lord, be merciful to him a sinner!”

“We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights — older than our political parties, older than our school system.”

“The language and history of the Ninth Amendment reveal that the Framers of the Constitution believed that there are additional fundamental rights, protected from governmental infringement, which exist alongside those fundamental rights specifically mentioned in the first eight constitutional amendments.”

“Their continued recognition will, however, go farther toward keeping most judges from roaming at large in the constitutional field than will the interpolation into the Constitution of an artificial and largely illusory restriction on the content of the Due Process Clause.”

“With all deference, I can find no such general right of privacy in the Bill of Rights, in any other part of the Constitution, or in any case ever before decided by this Court.”

“like a jewel, it would still shine by its own light, as a thing which has its whole value in itself”

“if adversity and hopeless sorrow have completely taken away the relish for life; if the unfortunate one, strong in mind, indignant at his fate rather than desponding or dejected, wishes for death, and yet preserves his life without loving it- not from inclination or fear, but from duty- then his maxim has a moral worth”

“Put the case that the mind of that philanthropist were clouded by sorrow of his own, extinguishing all sympathy with the lot of others”

“a gouty patient, for instance, can choose to enjoy what he likes, and to suffer what he may”

“The precepts for the physician to make his patient thoroughly healthy, and for a poisoner to ensure certain death, are of equal value in this respect, that each serves to effect its purpose perfectly”

“Would he have long life? who guarantees to him that it would not be a long misery? would he at least have health”

“happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”

“A man reduced to despair by a series of misfortunes feels wearied of life, but is still so far in possession of his reason that he can ask himself whether it would not be contrary to his duty to himself to take his own life”

“In the kingdom of ends everything has either value or dignity”

“we yet comprehend its incomprehensibility, and this is all that can be fairly demanded of a philosophy which strives to carry its principles up to the very limit of human reason”

“I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth”

“when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience”

“It is inconsistent with justice, because, in the first place, it is a breach of contract—a violation of the rights of a fair purchaser.”

“It has justly been observed, that there is scarcely any thing of greater moment in the economy of a nation than the proper division of labor.”

“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.”

“I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory”

“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all”

“we must be nearer starvation than this before we turn faithless to the father!”

“I am no beggar, mynheer”

“Not a leak can show itself anywhere either in its politics, honor, or public safety, that a million fingers are not ready to stop it, at any cost.”

“you have called me your friend. Take this strap--quick!”

“It is an ugly business, boy, this surgery”

“It calls for wisdom, too, and a reverence for God’s work.”

“Louisa, never wonder!”

“’Tis a muddle, and that’s aw.”

“How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death?”

“I think there’s a pain somewhere in the room”

“People mutht be amuthed. They can’t be alwayth a learning, nor yet they can’t be alwayth a working, they an’t made for it.”

“Dear reader! It rests with you and me, whether, in our two fields of action, similar things shall be or not.”

“I threw out the idea that the public lands ought not to be reserved forever, as “a great fund for revenue;” that they ought not to be “treated as a great treasure;” but that the course of our policy should rather be directed towards the creation of new states, and building up great and flourishing communities.”

“A moneyed interest in the government is essentially a base interest; and just so far as it operates to bind the feelings of those who are subjected to it to the government,—just so far as it operates in creating sympathies and interests that would not otherwise exist,—is it opposed to all the principles of free government, and at war with virtue and patriotism.”

“In the course of my former remarks, Mr. President, I took occasion to deprecate, as one of the greatest evils, the consolidation of this government.”

“Never was there exhibited in the history of the world higher examples of noble daring, dreadful suffering, and heroic endurance, than by the whigs of Carolina during the revolution.”

“The South Carolina doctrine, that is to say, the doctrine contained in an exposition reported by a committee of the legislature in December, 1828, and published by their authority, is the good old republican doctrine of ’98—the doctrine of the celebrated “Virginia Resolutions” of that year, and of “Madison’s Report” of ’99.”

“And this also has been one of the dark places of the earth.”

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much”

“the changes take place inside, you know”

“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future”

“Mistah Kurtz—he dead”

“The little old town of Mayenfeld is charmingly situated.”

“I am taking her up to the Alm-Uncle and there I want her to remain.”

“That is not the way, Heidi. You see, God in heaven is a good Father to all of us, who knows what we need better than we do.”

“The discretion belongs to Congress, unless the choice is clearly wrong, a display of arbitrary power, not an exercise of judgment.”

“Only a power that is national can serve the interests of all.”

“Whether wisdom or unwisdom resides in the scheme of benefits set forth in Title II, it is not for us to say.”

“In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch’d, And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars”

“Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!”

“Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France”

“In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility”

“if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make”

“Not today, O Lord, O, not today, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown”

“For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother”

“Praised be God, and not our strength, for it”

“Small time, but in that small most greatly lived This star of England”

“There is a well-known law of currency, that notes or promises to pay, unless made conveniently and promptly convertible into coin at the will of the holder, can never, except under unusual and abnormal conditions, be at par in circulation with coin.”

“It is difficult to conceive what act would take private property without process of law if such an act would not.”

“The time was not favorable to considerate reflection upon the constitutional limits of legislative or executive authority.”

“That the legal tender act prevented these disastrous results, and that the tender clause was necessary to prevent them, I entertain no doubt.”

“But what was needed was something more than the credit of the government.”

“Aeneas my eyes cling to through all my waking hours; Aeneas is my heart through the night and through the day.”

“Kept close in the palace am I, bound with heavy chains; and the cause of my punishment is that I was faithful.”

“She is not faithful who regrets her faith.”

“Believe me, it is true: going hence, I seem a swimmer, but, when I return, a shipwrecked man.”

“For the languor clings to me, for causes that do not appear; worn out, I find no help in the physician’s art.”

“so that I, for my part, am unable to call this anything except a disease of the soul.”

“Not far from the truth, I think, is the ancient saying that God does not give blessings unmixed, but He mingles them with troubles and then bestows them upon men.”

“Indeed the whole matter may be stated thus, that no device was discovered by man to save himself”

“those of the population who had formerly been members of the factions laid aside their mutual enmity and in common they attended to the burial rites of the dead”

“all who had the good fortune to be in health were sitting in their houses, either attending the sick or mourning the dead.”

“From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow”

“Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell”

“And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well, And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then?”

“I do not expect the Union to be dissolved,--I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.”

“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.”

“in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft, drawn up before the first blow was struck.”

“We shall lie down, pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free, and we shall awake to the reality instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State.”

“Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion, for this work is at least a caged and toothless one.”

“The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail. If we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate or mistakes delay it; but sooner or later the victory is sure to come.”

“Be easy, dear little sister, and go to sleep quietly; God will not forsake us”

“Dear child, be pious and good, and God will always take care of you, and I will look down upon you from heaven, and will be with you.”

“I am the luckiest man under the sun.”

“That is the reward for your service,”

“I have eaten for you, and I have drunk for you, I will also give you the ship; and all because you were kind to me at the first.”

“Tell General Howard I know his heart.”

“I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed; Looking-Glass is dead, Ta-hool-hool-shute is dead. The old men are all dead.”

“It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death.”

“I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead.”

“Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools;”

“And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’”

“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings--nor lose the common touch,”

“Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already.”

“The irritation of doubt causes a struggle to attain a state of belief.”

“To satisfy our doubts, therefore, it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may be caused by nothing human, but by some external permanency—by something upon which our thinking has no effect.”

“The genius of a man’s logical method should be loved and reverenced as his bride, whom he has chosen from all the world.”

“Consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.”

“He who would not sacrifice his own soul to save the whole world, is, as it seems to me, illogical in all his inferences, collectively. Logic is rooted in the social principle.”

“Hypothesis is where we find some very curious circumstance, which would be explained by the supposition that it was a case of a certain general rule, and thereupon adopt that supposition.”

“Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The Torch: be yours to hold it high!”

“the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.”

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.”

“Yet I would have chosen this, rather than my lot as a slave”

“when I speak of Mrs. Bruce as my friend, the word is sacred.”

“The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own.”

“we were redeemed by Christ at the great price which our redemption cost him, in order that we might not yield a slavish obedience to the depraved wishes of men, far less do homage to their impiety.”

“This is my enduring monument; marriage, motherhood, and fame—all these is it to me.”

“he was no longer himself; his eyes were rolling; he was quite distraught; his eyeballs were bloodshot”

“It is better, my son, to honor Equality, who always joins friend to friend, city to city, allies to allies;”

“I remember the day the Aleut ship came to our island.”

“Dolphins are animals of good omen.”

“Remain where thou art, proud Templar, or at thy choice advance!”

“I will not cast away the gift of God, while he affords me the means of defending it.”

“tending the sick, feeding the hungry, and relieving the distressed”

“May He, who made both Jew and Christian, shower down on you his choicest blessings!”

“But it is equally true that in every well-ordered society charged with the duty of conserving the safety of its members the rights of the individual in respect of his liberty may at times, under the pressure of great dangers, be subjected to such restraint, to be enforced by reasonable regulations, as the safety of the general public may demand.”

“We are not prepared to hold that a minority, residing or remaining in any city or town where smallpox is prevalent, and enjoying the general protection afforded by an organized local government, may thus defy the will of its constituted authorities, acting in good faith for all, under the legislative sanction of the state.”

“Before closing this opinion we deem it appropriate, in order to prevent misapprehension as to our views, to observe-perhaps to repeat a thought already sufficiently expressed, namely-that the police power of a state, whether exercised directly by the legislature, or by a local body acting under its authority, may be exerted in such circumstances, or by regulations so arbitrary and oppressive in particular cases, as to justify the interference of the courts to prevent wrong and oppression.”

“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you”

“breathed typhus through its crowded schoolroom and dormitory, and, ere May arrived, transformed the seminary into an hospital.”

“Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man”

“the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James”

“At the end we preferred to travel all night, Sleeping in snatches, With the voices singing in our ears, saying That this was all folly.”

“And three trees on the low sky, And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow. Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel, Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver, And feet kicking the empty wine-skins,”

“Although I am happy now, I am not without fear of future shadow.”

“He found all men were in search of fame or riches, and none sought for everlasting life.”

“The above is a summary of the Author's version of the seven days of creation.”

“The five pillars became a mountain joined together, and were called the Five Elements mountain, and Buddha gently covered him up under the mountain.”

“Buddhism is purity and kindness. Though its God is unseen, the fruit of the religion is good.”

“From the heart come all sorts of evil spirits. By the heart you can overcome them.”

“To pacify a nation, first attend to the King's illness.”

“They had travelled 10,000 li, and crossed a thousand rivers, in the daily hope of seeing Buddha at last.”

“As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived.”

“the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns.”

“I am in a chaos of principles—groping in the dark—acting by instinct and not after example.”

“They seem to see all its terrors before they are old enough to have staying power to resist them.”

“We are acting by the letter; and ‘the letter killeth’!”

“Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-child conceived.”

“to point, without a mincing of words, the tragedy of unfulfilled aims”

“It must be by his death: and for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general”

“Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream”

“But I am constant as the northern star”

“His life was gentle, and the elements So mix’d in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, “This was a man”

“who was full of ‘satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions”

“the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees”

“Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who.”

“That’s your very own humph that you’ve brought upon your very own self by not working.”

“But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do.”

“Them that takes cakes Which the Parsee-man bakes Makes dreadful mistakes.”

“How wise are little children who see and are silent!”

“I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”

“Listen, all ye mothers, listen, Learn from me a tale of wisdom: Never urge unwilling daughters From the dwellings of their fathers, To the bridegrooms that they love not,”

“Lemminkainen’s faithful mother Takes the rake of magic metals, Rakes the Tuoni river bottoms, Rakes the cataract and whirlpool,”

“If the child is not well nurtured, Is not rocked and led uprightly, Though he grow to years of manhood, Bear a strong and shapely body, He will never know discretion, Never eat the bread of honor, Never drink the cup of wisdom.”

“Wept the young, and wept the aged, Wept the mothers, wept the daughters Wept the warriors and heroes At the music of his playing,”

“Come, O Ukko, to my rescue, God of mercy, lend thy presence, Give these vapor-baths new virtues, Grant to them the powers of healing, And restore my dying people;”

“Davie, Davie,” I thought, “was ever seen such black ingratitude? Can you forget old favours and old friends at the mere whistle of a name? Fie, fie; think shame”

“The stair had been carried no higher; to set a stranger mounting it in the darkness was to send him straight to his death”

“We’re neither one of us to mend the other--that’s the truth! We must just bear and forbear, man Alan”

“For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:--and now I like ye better”

“The hand of Providence brought me in my drifting to the very doors of the British Linen Company’s bank”

“Korematsu was not excluded from the Military Area because of hostility to him or his race.”

“To find that the Constitution does not forbid the military measures now complained of does not carry with it approval of that which Congress and the Executive did. That is their business, not ours.”

“On the contrary, it is the case of convicting a citizen as a punishment for not submitting to imprisonment in a concentration camp, based on his ancestry, and solely because of his ancestry, without evidence or inquiry concerning his loyalty and good disposition towards the United States.”

“Tell me, Strangers, is a God or some man supposed to be the author of your laws?”

“the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats--which each man gains or sustains at the hands, not of another, but of himself”

“this is the sacred and golden cord of reason, called by us the common law of the State”

“Now God ought to be to us the measure of all things, and not man”

“For that state in which the law is subject and has no authority, I perceive to be on the highway to ruin; but I see that the state in which the law is above the rulers, and the rulers are the inferiors of the law, has salvation”

“he will not prescribe for him until he has first convinced him”

“Man, as we say, is a tame or civilized animal; nevertheless, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature”

“the soul is the first origin and moving power of all that is, or has become, or will be”

“Now, blessed Lord, would I not longer live, if it might please thee, Lord.”

“For our relation to God: an immediate fellowship of man with the Eternal, independently of priest or church.”

“First stands the confession of the absolute sovereignty of the Triune God; for of Him, through Him, and unto Him are all things.”

“In itself there is nothing sinful in fiction;— the power of the imagination is a precious gift of God Himself.”

“the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, and which do not derive the law of their life from the superiority of the state, but obey a high authority within their own bosom, which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.”

“not only the church, but also the world belongs to God and in both has to be investigated the masterpiece of the supreme Architect and Artificer.”

“the beautiful is not the product of our own fantasy, nor of our subjective perception, but has an objective existence, being itself the expression of a Divine perfection.”

“the quickening of life comes not from men, it is the prerogative of God”

“It certainly was intended to confer upon the government the power of self-preservation.”

“The Constitution was intended to frame a government as distinguished from a league or compact, a government supreme in some particulars over States and people.”

“The United States is not only a government, but it is a National government, and the only government in this country that has the character of nationality.”

“And this reversal, unprecedented in the history of the court, has been produced by no change in the opinions of those who concurred in the former judgment.”

“It was hoped that it had settled forever that under a Constitution ordained, among other things, 'to establish justice,' legislation giving to one person the right to discharge his obligations to another by nominal instead of actual fulfilment, could never be justified.”

“The tales, though not to be trusted for their facts, are worthy of all credit as pictures of manners”

“The Siren of Ulysses is the prototype of the Siren of Orlando, and the character of Circe reappears in Alcina.”

“Ah, how easy it is to lose one's reason! Some lose theirs by yielding to the sway of the passions;”

“He felt like one who had awakened from a painful dream, in which he had believed that monsters were about to tear him to pieces.”

“I bless thee, Orlando; I bless thy whole life, and all that thou wast, and all that thou ever didst, and the father that begat thee;”

“Brother, let Bayard live a little longer; who knows what God may do for us?”

“Unlike a book, a teacher cannot be inspected once so as to determine the extent and intent of his or her personal beliefs and subjective acceptance of the limitations imposed by the First Amendment.”

“Ordinarily, political debate and division, however vigorous or even partisan, are normal and healthy manifestations of our democratic system of government, but political division along religious lines was one of the principal evils against which the First Amendment was intended to protect.”

“The surveillance or supervision of the States needed to police grants involved in these three cases, if performed, puts a public investigator into every classroom and entails a pervasive monitoring of these church agencies by the secular authorities.”

“It is enough for me that the States and the Federal Government are financing a separable secular function of overriding importance in order to sustain the legislation here challenged. That religion and private interests other than education may substantially benefit does not convert these laws into impermissible establishments of religion.”

“The last knight of Europe takes weapons from the wall, The last and lingering troubadour to whom the bird has sung, That once went singing southward when all the world was young. In that enormous silence, tiny and unafraid, Comes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade.”

“It is he that saith not 'Kismet'; it is he that knows not Fate; It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey in the gate!”

“The hidden room in man's house where God sits all the year, The secret window whence the world looks small and very dear.”

“Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath (Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.) And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain, Up which a lean and foolish knight for ever rides in vain”

“Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.”

“The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.”

“There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the inmost recesses of the soul.”

“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one’s own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of one’s self”

“Javert’s ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was to be irreproachable.”

“To love, or to have loved,—this suffices. Demand nothing more.”

“He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost some person who is dear to him. People die of that.”

“So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth”

“He certainly is not a wise man, who folds his arms and reposeth himself at home, seeing with unconcern the flames that have invaded his neighbour's house, without any endeavours to extinguish them.”

“The cause of liberty is a cause of too much dignity, to be sullied by turbulence and tumult.”

“Let us behave like dutiful children, who have received unmerited blows from a beloved parent.”

“Those who are taxed without their own consent, given by themselves, or their representatives, are slaves.”

“For who are a free people? not those over whom government is reasonably and equitably exercised”

“A perpetual jealousy respecting liberty, is absolutely requisite in all free states.”

“Some states have lost their liberty by particular accidents; but this calamity is generally owing to the decay of virtue.”

“Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds--that we cannot be happy without being free--that we cannot be free without being secure in our property--that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away”

“For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the begining whereof is in some principall part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheeles as doth a watch) have an artificiall life”

“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body”

“Imagination therefore is nothing but Decaying Sense”

“Dejection, subjects a man to causelesse fears; which is a Madnesse commonly called MELANCHOLY, apparent also in divers manners; as in haunting of solitudes, and graves; in superstitious behaviour; and in fearing some one, some another particular thing”

“If some man in Bedlam should entertaine you with sober discourse; and you desire in taking leave, to know what he were, that you might another time requite his civility; and he should tell you, he were God the Father; I think you need expect no extravagant action for argument of his Madnesse”

“For the effect of the wine, does but remove Dissimulation; and take from them the sight of the deformity of their Passions”

“And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition”

“Which Venime I will not doubt to compare to the biting of a mad Dogge, which is a disease the Physicians call Hydrophobia, or Fear Of Water”

“And this is a Disease which not unfitly may be compared to the Epilepsie, or Falling-sicknesse (which the Jewes took to be one kind of possession by Spirits) in the Body Naturall”

“the Blood in a Pleurisie, getting into the Membrane of the breast, breedeth there an Inflammation, accompanied with a Fever, and painfull stitches”

“All civill power is immediately from God in its root.”

“And if all Men be born equally free (as I hope to prove) there is no reason in Nature, why one Man should be King and Lord over another”

“The King hath no proper, masterly, or herile dominion over his subjects: his dominion is rather fiduciary and ministeriall, than masterly.”

“The King, as King, is a living, breathing, and speaking Law.”

“Resistance is in the Children of God an innocent act of self-preservation, as is patient suffering, and therefore they may well subsist in one.”

“Monarchy, de jure, that is, lawfull and limited Monarchy is best; even now in a Kingdome, under the fall of sin, if other circumstances be considered.”

“Taking, therefore, his sword with which he was girt, he divided his cloak into two equal parts, and gave one part to the poor man, while he again clothed himself with the remainder”

“Here he subsisted for some time on the roots of plants; and, while doing so, he took for food hellebore, which is, as people say, a poisonous kind of grass”

“But, after the lapse only of a few days, the catechumen, seized with a languor, began to suffer from a violent fever”

“O Lord, if I am still necessary to your people, I do not shrink from toil: your will be done”

“Does he ever see her beauty at all, or doesn't he simply view her professionally, and comment upon her unwholesome condition all to himself?”

“His hour had struck; we bore him to the death-room, poor boy.”

“What constitutes bona fide medical practice must be determined upon consideration of evidence and attending circumstances.”

“Mere pretense of such practice, of course, cannot legalize forbidden sales”

“The opinion cannot be accepted as authority for holding that a physician, who acts bona fide and according to fair medical standards, may never give an addict moderate amounts of drugs for self-administration in order to relieve conditions incident to addiction.”

“when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart”

“Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her;”

“"I wish that I could sit on a cloud and fly all around," said Little Bear.”

“A man's character is like his house.”

“They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.”

“They drove away and left it lonely and empty in the clearing among the big trees, and they never saw that little house again.”

“I'll have no grasping tyrants sittin' 'round on my cracker-barrels!”

“But if I have to be an earl, there's one thing I can do: I can try to be a good one.”

“when you are an earl, see to it that you are a better earl than I have been!”

“He would have filled my place better than I have filled it. I know that. He would have been an honor to the name.”

“when I am an earl, I am going to try to be as good as my grandfather.”

“I’d rather see you poor men’s wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace”

“the ravening maw of time has not only diminished by a great amount their own works and the honourable testimonies of others”

“he passed to the other life in the year 1300, having little less than resurrected painting.”

“the most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men; sometimes a matter of less moment, an expression or a jest, informs us better of their characters and inclinations, than the most famous sieges, the greatest armaments, or the bloodiest battles whatsoever”

“Strike if you will, but hear”

“The city is well fortified which hath a wall of men instead of brick”

“I would," said he, "much rather be asked, why I have not one, than why I have one”

“Also, Carthage, methinks, ought utterly to be destroyed”

“For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows, than the second man in Rome”

“The die is cast”

“I came, saw, and conquered”

“more worshiped the rising than the setting sun”

“his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation he overcame and rendered more distinct by speaking with pebbles in his mouth”

“The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars”

“But Cleopatra was busied in making a collection of all varieties of poisonous drugs, and, in order to see which of them were the least painful in the operation, she had them tried upon prisoners condemned to die”

“It is a question of which of two powers or rights shall prevail—the power of the State to legislate or the right of the individual to liberty of person and freedom of contract.”

“We think that there can be no fair doubt that the trade of a baker, in and of itself, is not an unhealthy one to that degree which would authorize the legislature to interfere with the right to labor, and with the right of free contract on the part of the individual, either as employer or employé.”

“If there be doubt as to the validity of the statute, that doubt must therefore be resolved in favor of its validity, and the courts must keep their hands off, leaving the legislature to meet the responsibility for unwise legislation.”

“He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull”

“He was ‘one of us”

“In the destructive element immerse”

“He passes away under a cloud, inscrutable at heart, forgotten, unforgiven, and excessively romantic”

“My Father was a native of Ireland and an inhabitant of Wales; my Mother was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl—I was born in Spain and received my Education at a Convent in France.”

“No! Never shall it be said that I obliged my Father.”

“BY A PARTIAL, PREJUDICED, AND IGNORANT HISTORIAN.”

“N.B. There will be very few Dates in this History.”

“I murdered my father at a very early period of my Life, I have since murdered my Mother, and I am now going to murder my Sister.”

“The mere fact that a publication contains advice and comment about specific securities does not give it the personalized character that identifies a professional investment adviser.”

“On the contrary, they circulate for sale to the public at large in a free, open market—a public forum in which typically anyone may express his views.”

“Notably, however, those words describe the publication rather than the character of the publisher; hence Lowe's unsavory history does not prevent his newsletters from being "bona fide."”

“In my view, petitioner is an investment adviser subject to regulation and sanction under the Act. I concur in the judgment, however, because to prevent petitioner from publishing at all is inconsistent with the First Amendment.”

“The courts should not lightly take it upon themselves to state that the path chosen by Congress is an impermissible one; but neither are the courts free to redraft statutory schemes in ways not anticipated by Congress solely to avoid constitutional difficulties.”

“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand”

“Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast”

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand”

“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”

“I am in blood Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er”

“Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. More needs she the divine than the physician”

“Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, / Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, / Raze out the written troubles of the brain, / And with some sweet oblivious antidote / Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart?”

“Throw physic to the dogs, I’ll none of it”

“the English church shall be free, and shall have her rights entire, and her liberties inviolate”

“No scutage nor aid shall be imposed on our kingdom, unless by common counsel of our kingdom”

“We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or bailiffs only such as know the law of the realm and mean to observe it well.”

“she was so proud she tipped her nose in the air and walked along with an extra swing in her waddle.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

“The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

“About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady”

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called _more_ wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory”

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can have.”

“There is no war between the Constitution and common sense.”

“Our decision, founded on reason and truth, gives to the individual no more than that which the Constitution guarantees him, to the police officer no less than that to which honest law enforcement is entitled, and, to the courts, that judicial integrity so necessary in the true administration of justice.”

“In overruling the Wolf case, the Court, in my opinion, has forgotten the sense of judicial restraint which, with due regard for stare decisis, is one element that should enter into deciding whether a past decision of this Court should be overruled.”

“The preservation of a proper balance between state and federal responsibility in the administration of criminal justice demands patience on the part of those who might like to see things move faster among the States in this respect.”

“Questions, in their nature political or which are, by the Constitution and laws, submitted to the Executive, can never be made in this court.”

“Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it.”

“To withhold the commission, therefore, is an act deemed by the Court not warranted by law, but violative of a vested legal right.”

“When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:”

“O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me. My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.”

“I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man,”

“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt!”

“the Government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action.”

“In discussing this question, the counsel for the State of Maryland have deemed it of some importance, in the construction of the Constitution, to consider that instrument not as emanating from the people, but as the act of sovereign and independent States.”

“This provision is made in a Constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.”

“Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux, and the perception dull”

“Hippocrates after curing many diseases himself fell sick and died.”

“Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.”

“Think continually how many physicians are dead after often contracting their eyebrows over the sick”

“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present—I am rising to the work of a human being.”

“I wish my friends and enemies to understand that I disclaim the character of historian, but assume to be a witness on the stand before the great tribunal of history”

“There was no positive order to retreat, although for an hour it had been going on by the operation of the men themselves”

“the report that I was "crazy, insane, and mad," that "I had demanded two hundred thousand men for the defense of Kentucky”

“Before the battle of Shiloh, I had been cast down by a mere newspaper assertion of "crazy;" but that single battle had given me new life, and now I was in high feather”

“They worked day and night, and did not rest till all the wounded of our own troops as well as of the enemy were in safe and comfortable shelter”

“This is waste, but is the natural consequence of war, chargeable on those who caused the war”

“generally war is destruction and nothing else”

“We accepted the issue, and now they begin to realize that war is a two-edged sword, and it may be that many of the inhabitants cry for peace”

“In accepting war, it should be "pure and simple" as applied to the belligerents”

“I could not help reproaching myself for having consented to his visit in that sickly region in the summer-time”

“Being in the very midst of an important military enterprise, I had hardly time to pause and think of my personal loss”

“The child that bore my name, and in whose future I reposed with more confidence than I did in my own plan of life, now floats a mere corpse, seeking a grave in a distant land, with a weeping mother, brother, and sisters, clustered about him”

“Between us were mutual bonds of amity and friendship.”

“To the knight I applied a small poultice until the abscess opened and became well; and the woman I put on diet and made her humor wet.”

“I have, however, witnessed a case of their medicine which was quite different from that.”

“Everyone who is a fresh emigrant from the Frankish lands is ruder in character than those who have become acclimatized and have held long association with the Moslems.”

“Their loss has left a heartsore that will stay with me to the last day of my life.”

“How mysterious are the deeds of the Almighty, who afflicts with disease and gives the cure!”

“When I ask you for one virtue, you present me with a swarm of them”

“that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know”

“Then, Meno, the conclusion is that virtue comes to the virtuous by the gift of God.”

“Of shapes transformde to bodies straunge, I purpose to entreate”

“Corresponding to the right of control, it is the natural duty of the parent to give his children education suitable to their station in life, and nearly all the States, including Nebraska, enforce this obligation by compulsory laws.”

“Mere knowledge of the German language cannot reasonably be regarded as harmful.”

“Perhaps it would be highly advantageous if all had ready understanding of our ordinary speech, but this cannot be coerced by methods which conflict with the Constitution — a desirable end cannot be promoted by prohibited means.”

“The power of the State to compel attendance at some school and to make reasonable regulations for all schools, including a requirement that they shall give instructions in English, is not questioned.”

“Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.”

“He meant to be a unit who would make a certain amount of difference towards that spreading change which would one day tell appreciably upon the averages”

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

“We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves”

“These things are a parable. The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent”

“he had once or twice tried a dose of opium. But he had no hereditary constitutional craving after such transient escapes from the hauntings of misery.”

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”

“for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

“Mike Mulligan had a steam shovel, a beautiful red steam shovel.”

“He always said that she could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week”

“The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.”

“Conscientious scruples have not, in the course of the long struggle for religious toleration, relieved the individual from obedience to a general law not aimed at the promotion or restriction of religious beliefs.”

“To fight out the wise use of legislative authority in the forum of public opinion and before legislative assemblies rather than to transfer such a contest to the judicial arena, serves to vindicate the self-confidence of a free people.”

“History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.”

“This atmosphere carries its own badge of intimidation.”

“We have already pointed out that the Constitution does not require any specific code of procedures for protecting the privilege against self-incrimination during custodial interrogation.”

“Those who use third-degree tactics and deny them in court are equally able and destined to lie as skillfully about warnings and waivers.”

“But it has never been suggested, until today, that such questioning was so coercive and accused persons so lacking in hardihood that the very first response to the very first question following the commencement of custody must be conclusively presumed to be the product of an overborne will.”

“whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet”

“Delight is to him, who gives no quarter in the truth, and kills, burns, and destroys all sin though he pluck it out from under the robes of Senators and Judges.”

“all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea”

“To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.”

“so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!”

“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”

“Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.”

“Living alone here with the dead is a worse act of justice than death or prison!”

“I have told you my stories. They will make your mouse soup taste really good.”

“It was an afternoon in late September. In the pleasant little city of Stillwater, Mr. Popper, the house painter, was going home from work.”

“Septimus was one of the first to volunteer. He went to France to save an England which consisted almost entirely of Shakespeare’s plays and Miss Isabel Pole in a green dress walking in a square.”

“Sir William said he never spoke of “madness”; he called it not having a sense of proportion.”

“Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone.”

“Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu! No glory lives behind the back of such.”

“Give not this rotten orange to your friend;”

“Come, lady, die to live: this wedding day Perhaps is but prolong’d: have patience and endure.”

“man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.”

“When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.”

“They stand, to use again the language of their counsel, in the very 'gateway of commerce,' and take toll from all who pass.”

“If this be sound law, if there be no protection, either in the principles upon which our republican government is founded, or in the prohibitions of the Constitution against such invasion of private rights, all property and all business in the State are held at the mercy of a majority of its legislature.”

“All that is beneficial in property arises from its use, and the fruits of that use; and whatever deprives a person of them deprives him of all that is desirable or valuable in the title and possession.”

“There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made”

“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy”

“Perhaps that is what we feel when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge.”

“Wouldn't it be wonderful to fly just anywhere you might think of!”

“One doesn't contradict a hungry tiger.”

“Don't you know that's my private weeping pool?”

“What a life for a baby dragon!”

“Steady, old boy, steady. We'll make it. Just stand still,”

“But my father and the dragon knew that nothing in the world would ever make them go back to Wild Island.”

“as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name With anybody's gift.”

“and I choose Never to stoop.”

“Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!”

“I am on my mountain in a tree home that people have passed without ever knowing that I am here.”

“In forming the plan of a campaign, it is requisite to foresee everything the enemy may do, and to be prepared with the necessary means to counteract it”

“The strength of an army, like the power in mechanics, is estimated by multiplying the mass by the rapidity”

“When an army carries with it a battering train, or large convoys of sick and wounded, it cannot march by too short a line upon its depôts”

“The first qualification of a soldier is fortitude under fatigue and privation. Courage is only the second; hardship, poverty and want, are the best school for a soldier”

“It is the height of injustice not to pay a veteran more than a recruit”

“They will terminate in the adoption of the worst course, which in war is always the most timid, or, if you will, the most prudent. The only true wisdom in a general is determined courage”

“Great extremities require extraordinary resolution. The more obstinate the resistance of an army, the greater the chances of assistance or of success”

“The first qualification in a general-in-chief is a cool head--that is, a head which receives just impressions, and estimates things and objects at their real value. He must not allow himself to be elated by good news, or depressed by bad”

“Some men are so physically and morally constituted as to see everything through a highly-colored medium”

“Peruse again and again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Cæsar, Gustavus Adolphus, Turenne, Eugene, and Frederick. Model yourself upon them”

“THE CHIEF JUSTICE's crabbed reading of the Commerce Clause harks back to the era in which the Court routinely thwarted Congress' efforts to regulate the national economy in the interest of those who labor to sustain it.”

“As economists would describe what happens, the uninsured "free ride" on those who pay for health insurance.”

“The Act before us here exceeds federal power both in mandating the purchase of health insurance and in denying non-consenting States all Medicaid funding.”

“Such a definition of market participants is unprecedented, and were it to be a premise for the exercise of national power, it would have no principled limits.”

“No one would question but that a government might prevent actual obstruction to its recruiting service or the publication of the sailing dates of transports or the number and location of troops.”

“It gives to freedom of the press a meaning and a scope not heretofore recognized, and construes "liberty" in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to put upon the States a federal restriction that is without precedent.”

“It is of the greatest importance that the States shall be untrammeled and free to employ all just and appropriate measures to prevent abuses of the liberty of the press.”

“Although the Sedition Act was never tested in this Court the attack upon its validity has carried the day in the court of history.”

“The right of free public discussion of the stewardship of public officials was thus, in Madison's view, a fundamental principle of the American form of government.”

“The requirement that malice be proved provides at best an evanescent protection for the right critically to discuss public affairs and certainly does not measure up to the sturdy safeguard embodied in the First Amendment.”

“To punish the exercise of this right to discuss public affairs or to penalize it through libel judgments is to abridge or shut off discussion of the very kind most needed.”

“Undoubtedly the scope of this power must be considered in the light of our dual system of government and may not be extended so as to embrace effects upon interstate commerce so indirect and remote that to embrace them, in view of our complex society, would effectually obliterate the distinction between what is national and what is local and create a completely centralized government.”

“When industries organize themselves on a national scale, making their relation to interstate commerce the dominant factor in their activities, how can it be maintained that their industrial labor relations constitute a forbidden field into which Congress may not enter when it is necessary to protect interstate commerce from the paralyzing consequences of industrial war?”

“The act does not compel agreements between employers and employees. It does not compel any agreement whatever.”

“We are, therefore, driven to the acknowledgment that nations and governments, if they can rightfully exist at all, can exist only by consent.”

“Having pledged no faith, they break none.”

“A traitor is a betrayer—one who practices injury, while professing friendship.”

“The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation.”

“It purports, at most, to be only a contract between persons living eighty years ago.”

“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life.”

“A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.”

“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain—that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”

“We are of the opinion that the gold clauses now before us were not contracts for payment in gold coin as a commodity, or in bullion, but were contracts for the payment of money.”

“It requires no acute analysis or profound economic inquiry to disclose the dislocation of the domestic economy which would be caused by such a disparity of conditions in which, it is insisted, those debtors under gold clauses should be required to pay $1.69 in currency while respectively receiving their taxes, rates, charges, and prices on the basis of $1 of that currency.”

“We are not concerned with consequences, in the sense that consequences, however serious, may excuse an invasion of constitutional right.”

“The clause is not new or obscure or discolored by any sinister purpose.”

“only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”

“Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own observation of what is passing around you”

“One’s own free unfettered choice, one’s own caprice, however wild it may be, one’s own fancy worked up at times to frenzy—is that very “most advantageous advantage” which we have overlooked”

“You believe in a palace of crystal that can never be destroyed—a palace at which one will not be able to put out one’s tongue or make a long nose on the sly.”

“I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea.”

“which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings?”

“We are stillborn, and for generations past have been begotten, not by living fathers, and that suits us better and better.”

“MAN is the Interpreter of Nature, Science the right interpretation.”

“For an Art of Discovery is not possible.”

“The process of scientific discovery is cautious and rigorous, not by abstaining from hypotheses, but by rigorously comparing hypotheses with facts, and by resolutely rejecting all which the comparison does not confirm.”

“It is a test of true theories not only to account for, but to predict phenomena.”

“The pearls are there, but they will not hang together till some one provides the String.”

“To try wrong guesses is, with most persons, the only way to hit upon right ones.”

“That rules springing from remote and unconnected quarters should thus leap to the same point”

“We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general.”

“Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more”

“Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect; for nature is only subdued by submission”

“the specious meditations, speculations, and theories of mankind are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it”

“Four species of idols beset the human mind, to which (for distinction’s sake) we have assigned names, calling the first Idols of the Tribe, the second Idols of the Den, the third Idols of the Market, the fourth Idols of the Theatre.”

“But where are the portraits of those who have perished in spite of their vows”

“The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will”

“The former like ants only heap up and use their store, the latter like spiders spin out their own webs”

“We must not then add wings, but rather lead and ballast to the understanding, to prevent its jumping or flying”

“printing, gunpowder, and the compass. For these three have changed the appearance and state of the whole world”

“Now the empire of man over things is founded on the arts and sciences alone, for nature is only to be commanded by obeying her”

“Since, however, truth emerges more readily from error than confusion, we consider it useful to leave the understanding at liberty”

“But opiates, and the like, banish the spirits by their malignant and hostile quality”

“All of Denmark is his bodyguard.”

“It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.”

“But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.”

“Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You’ve fallen cold and dead.”

“My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,”

“The evidence showed that Donaldson's confinement was a simple regime of enforced custodial care, not a program designed to alleviate or cure his supposed illness.”

“But the mere presence of mental illness does not disqualify a person from preferring his home to the comforts of an institution.”

“Mere public intolerance or animosity cannot constitutionally justify the deprivation of a person's physical liberty.”

“In short, the idea that States may not confine the mentally ill except for the purpose of providing them with treatment is of very recent origin, and there is no historical basis for imposing such a limitation on state power.”

“It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me.”

“Since well before 1787, liberty has been understood as freedom from government action, not entitlement to government benefits.”

“The system of federalism established by our Constitution provides a way for people with different beliefs to live together in a single nation.”

“Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal--yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!”

“More happy love! more happy, happy love! For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd, For ever panting, and for ever young;”

“That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.”

“And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.”

“Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!”

“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.”

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you”

“Think ye are men, deem it not impossible for you to err; sift unpartially your own hearts, whether it be force of reason or vehemency of affection, which hath bred and still doth feed these opinions in you.”

“whom, for mine own part, I think incomparably the wisest man that ever the French church did enjoy, since the hour it enjoyed him.”

“HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers”

“All things that are, have some operation not violent or casual.”

“And the light of that eye, is reason. So that two principal fountains there are of human action, Knowledge and Will;”

“The general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself.”

“Laws they are not therefore which public approbation hath not made so.”

“of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world”

“Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery.”

“The blessing was from a young child’s lips, but it was the first that Oliver had ever heard invoked upon his head”

“I thieved for you when I was a child not half as old as this!”

“Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you”

“Oh! God forgive this wretched man!”

“First, institutional placement of persons who can handle and benefit from community settings perpetuates unwarranted assumptions that persons so isolated are incapable or unworthy of participating in community life.”

“Second, confinement in an institution severely diminishes the everyday life activities of individuals, including family relations, social contacts, work options, economic independence, educational advancement, and cultural enrichment.”

“It must be remembered that for the person with severe mental illness who has no treatment the most dreaded of confinements can be the imprisonment inflicted by his own mind, which shuts reality out and subjects him to the torment of voices and images beyond our own powers to describe.”

“Temporary exclusion from community placement does not amount to "discrimination" in the traditional sense of the word, nor have respondents shown that petitioners "discriminated" against them "by reason of" their disabilities.”

“At bottom, the type of claim approved of by the majority does not concern a prohibition against certain conduct (the traditional understanding of discrimination), but rather imposition of a standard of care.”

“Now the foundation of justice is faithfulness, which is a perseverance and truth in all our declarations and in all our promises.”

“we ought to regard, to cultivate, and to promote the good will and the social welfare of all mankind.”

“Now, of all things there is none more adapted for supporting and retaining our influence than to be loved, nor more prejudicial than to be feared.”

“that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when he was alone.”

“nothing is expedient which is not likewise virtuous”

“If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed, but by answering; Because it was he, because it was my selfe.”

“And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless,”

“"Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask.”

“God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best.”

“His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant”

“if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth”

“He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation”

“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing”

“they are in peril of a commission _de lunatico_, and of having their property taken from them and given to their relations”

“If poisons were never bought or used for any purpose except the commission of murder, it would be right to prohibit their manufacture and sale”

“But to require in all cases the certificate of a medical practitioner, would make it sometimes impossible, always expensive, to obtain the article for legitimate uses”

“Drunkenness, for example, in ordinary cases, is not a fit subject for legislative interference”

“The principle of freedom cannot require that he should be free not to be free. It is not freedom, to be allowed to alienate his freedom”

“But to you alone, true philosophizers, honest men, who seek knowledge not from books only but from things themselves, have I addressed these magnetical principles in this new sort of Philosophizing.”

“for nothing hath been set down in these books which hath not been explored and many times performed and repeated amongst us.”

“To those early forefathers of philosophy, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Ptolemy, Hippocrates, and Galen, let due honour be ever paid: for by them wisdom hath been diffused to posterity; but our age hath detected and brought to light very many facts which they, were they now alive, would gladly have accepted.”

“The application of a loadstone for all sorts of headaches no more cures them (as some make out) than would an iron helmet or a steel cap.”

“we have to establish & present to the view of the learned our New & unheard of doctrine about the earth”

“make yourself a versorium of any metal you like, three or four digits in length, resting rather lightly on its point of support after the manner of a magnetick needle”

“A loadstone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like a living creature.”

“I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from the positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature”

“I found the task so truly arduous, so full of difficulties, that I was almost tempted to think, with Fracastorius, that the motion of the heart was only to be comprehended by God.”

“so much doth wont and custom become a second nature. Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men. Still the die is cast, and my trust is in my love of truth and the candour of cultivated minds.”

“I began to think whether there might not be a MOTION, AS IT WERE, IN A CIRCLE.”

“The heart, consequently, is the beginning of life; the sun of the microcosm, even as the sun in his turn might well be designated the heart of the world”

“It could be furnished in no other way than by making a circuit and returning.”

“it is absolutely necessary to conclude that the blood in the animal body is impelled in a circle, and is in a state of ceaseless motion”

“Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult—at least I have found it so—than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind”

“War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale”

“War therefore is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will”

“Now, philanthropists may easily imagine there is a skilful method of disarming and overcoming an enemy without great bloodshed, and that this is the proper tendency of the Art of War”

“a wonderful trinity, composed of the original violence of its elements, hatred and animosity, which may be looked upon as blind instinct; of the play of probabilities and chance, which make it a free activity of the soul; and of the subordinate nature of a political instrument, by which it belongs purely to the reason”

“War is the province of uncertainty: three-fourths of those things upon which action in War must be calculated, are hidden more or less in the clouds of great uncertainty”

“The young soldier cannot reach any of these different strata of danger without feeling that the light of reason does not move here in the same medium, that it is not refracted in the same manner as in speculative contemplation”

“By this comes to light for the inexperienced eye one of those things which put fetters in the dark, as it were, on the action of the mind, and wear out in secret the powers of the soul”

“Habit gives strength to the body in great exertion, to the mind in great danger, to the judgment against first impressions”

“How many trifling illnesses by that means become serious, how many serious ones become mortal”

“It has certainly a grammar of its own, but its logic is not peculiar to itself”

“The hammer banged reveille on the rail outside camp HQ at five o'clock as always. Time to get up.”

“the whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded of all the primary Colours mix'd in a due Proportion.”

“Was the Eye contrived without Skill in Opticks, and the Ear without Knowledge of Sounds?”

“And though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings us not immediately to the Knowledge of the first Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.”

“And if natural Philosophy in all its Parts, by pursuing this Method, shall at length be perfected, the Bounds of Moral Philosophy will be also enlarged.”

“Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.”

“The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!”

“I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle.”

“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy”

“This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be and deserves fuller investigation.”

“Life? Literature? One to be made into the other? But how monstrously difficult!”

“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”

“It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”

“Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin.”

“Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.”

“I do perceive here a divided duty”

“Nobody; I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord. O, farewell!”

“whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,”

“The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:”

“So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate; there plant eyes”

“Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely”

“So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he”

“O Goodness infinite, Goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good”

“Mankind is naturally endowed and born with Freedom from all Subjection, and at liberty to choose what Form of Government it please”

“That the desire of Liberty was the first Cause of the Fall of Adam.”

“This Lordship which Adam by Command had over the whole World, and by Right descending from him the Patriarchs did enjoy, was as large and ample as the Absolutest Dominion of any Monarch which hath been since the Creation”

“the Ministry of men who execute God's Judgments without Commission, is sinful and damnable.”

“all the Duties of a King are summed up in an Universal Fatherly Care of his People.”

“the Original of Laws was for the keeping of the Multitude in Order”

“the Prerogative of a King is to be above all Laws, for the good only of them that are under the Laws, and to defend the Peoples Liberties”

“A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar,”

“It was one by the village clock, When he galloped into Lexington.”

“A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore!”

“Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.”

“The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves.”

“No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.”

“Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.”

“With confidence in our armed forces—with the unbounding determination of our people—we will gain the inevitable triumph- so help us God.”

“I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.”

“Imagination.--It is that deceitful part in man, that mistress of error and falsity, the more deceptive that she is not always so”

“She makes men happy and sad, healthy and sick, rich and poor”

“If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps”

“We have another source of error in diseases. They spoil the judgment and the senses”

“When we are well we wonder what we would do if we were ill, but when we are ill we take medicine cheerfully; the illness persuades us to do so”

“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study”

“Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered”

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me”

“If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is”

“Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute”

“Jesus will be in agony even to the end of the world. We must not sleep during that time”

“Physicians will not heal thee, for thou wilt die at last. But it is I who heal thee, and make the body immortal”

“Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighbouring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves.”

“wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real disgrace of poverty not in owning to the fact but in declining the struggle against it.”

“instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling-block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.”

“judging happiness to be the fruit of freedom and freedom of valour, never decline the dangers of war.”

“For it is only the love of honour that never grows old; and honour it is, not gain, as some would have it, that rejoices the heart of age and helplessness.”

“No treaty of peace shall be regarded as valid, if made with the secret reservation of material for a future war.”

“The civil constitution of each state shall be republican.”

“If, as must be so under this constitution, the consent of the subjects is required to determine whether there shall be war or not, nothing is more natural than that they should weigh the matter well, before undertaking such a bad business.”

“The law of nations shall be founded on a federation of free states.”

“a violation of right in one part of the world is felt all over it.”

“The problem of the formation of the state, hard as it may sound, is not insoluble, even for a race of devils, granted that they have intelligence.”

“Seek ye first the kingdom of pure practical reason and its righteousness, and the object of your endeavour, the blessing of perpetual peace, will be added unto you.”

“All actions relating to the rights of other men are wrong, if the maxims from which they follow are inconsistent with publicity.”

“into every act of knowing there enters a passionate contribution of the person knowing what is being known”

“this personal coefficient, which shapes all factual knowledge, bridges in doing so the disjunction between subjectivity and objectivity.”

“Later I was reduced almost to the point of death, and it became impossible for me to attend to anything for weeks”

“There was consumption in my father's family, two of his brothers having died of that disease, which made my symptoms more alarming”

“For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation”

“Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions”

“About one-third of the people with me died, either at Cruces or on the way to Panama”

“I managed to keep along very well until 1858, when I was attacked by fever and ague”

“It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him”

“The sight was more unendurable than encountering the enemy's fire, and I returned to my tree in the rain”

“I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made”

“I spent the night in bathing my feet in hot water and mustard, and putting mustard plasters on my wrists and the back part of my neck, hoping to be cured by morning”

“When the officer reached me I was still suffering with the sick headache, but the instant I saw the contents of the note I was cured”

“I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought”

“The universally kind feeling expressed for me at a time when it was supposed that each day would prove my last, seemed to me the beginning of the answer to "Let us have peace”

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation”

“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning”

“There was no wound, no blood, no visible bruise; but her eyes were closed, she breathed not, her face was like death”

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone”

““You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.””

““If you believe,” he shouted to them, “clap your hands; don’t let Tink die.””

““Proud and insolent youth,” said Hook, “prepare to meet thy doom.””

““I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.””

“It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.”

“this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories”

“Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one”

“a complicated network of similarities overlapping and criss-crossing”

“He reasoned that if he were right, then childbed fever could be prevented by chemically destroying the infectious material adhering to the hands.”

“He therefore issued an order requiring all medical students to wash their hands in a solution of chlorinated lime before making an examination.”

“As for the individual, every one is a son of his time ; so philosophy also is its time apprehended in thoughts.”

“Be a person and respect others as persons.”

“But conscience is the deepest internal solitude, from which both limit and the external have wholly disappeared.”

“The family is the direct substantive reality of spirit. The unity of the family is one of feeling, the feeling of love.”

“The state is the realized ethical idea or ethical spirit.”

“The history of the world is the world's court of judgment.”

“No question is raised concerning the power of the state reasonably to regulate all schools, to inspect, supervise and examine them, their teachers and pupils; to require that all children of proper age attend some school, that teachers shall be of good moral character and patriotic disposition, that certain studies plainly essential to good citizenship must be taught, and that nothing be taught which is manifestly inimical to the public welfare.”

“Appellees are engaged in a kind of undertaking not inherently harmful, but long regarded as useful and meritorious.”

“Prevention of impending injury by unlawful action is a well-recognized function of courts of equity.”

“The Court's power lies, rather, in its legitimacy, a product of substance and perception that shows itself in the people's acceptance of the Judiciary as fit to determine what the Nation's law means and to declare what it demands.”

“We believe that Roe was wrongly decided, and that it can and should be overruled consistently with our traditional approach to stare decisis in constitutional cases.”

“The issue is whether it is a liberty protected by the Constitution of the United States.”

“Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation.”

“If the two races are to meet upon terms of social equality, it must be the result of natural affinities, a mutual appreciation of each other's merits, and a voluntary consent of individuals.”

“In my opinion, the judgment this day rendered will, in time, prove to be quite as pernicious as the decision made by this tribunal in the Dred Scott Case.”

“The thin disguise of "equal" accommodations for passengers in railroad coaches will not mislead anyone, nor atone for the wrong this day done.”

“By denying these children a basic education, we deny them the ability to live within the structure of our civic institutions, and foreclose any realistic possibility that they will contribute in even the smallest way to the progress of our Nation.”

“If the State is to deny a discrete group of innocent children the free public education that it offers to other children residing within its borders, that denial must be justified by a showing that it furthers some substantial state interest. No such showing was made here.”

“In reaching this conclusion, I am not unmindful of what must be the exasperation of responsible citizens and government authorities in Texas and other States similarly situated.”

“Denying a free education to illegal alien children is not a choice I would make were I a legislator. Apart from compassionate considerations, the long-range costs of excluding any children from the public schools may well outweigh the costs of educating them. But that is not the issue; the fact that there are sound policy arguments against the Texas Legislature's choice does not render that choice an unconstitutional one.”

“THE world is charged with the grandeur of God”

“the instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood”

“A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”

“as the result not of vice, but of some great error or frailty”

“But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor.”

“If the state is the organisation of men seeking a common good, power and political position must be given to those who can forward this end”

“If, in the changes of wealth and population in particular states, apportionment produced inequality, it was an inequality stipulated for, just as the equal representation of the states, however small, in the senate, was stipulated for.”

“It is appropriate now to say that, however objectionable the law would have been, after the provision for taxing incomes arising from rents was stricken out, I did not then, nor do I now, think it within the province of the court to annul the provisions relating to incomes derived from other specified sources, and take from the government the entire revenue contemplated to be raised by the taxation of incomes, simply because the clause relating to rents was held to be unconstitutional.”

“Whence the 'century of error' is evolved, unless the cases relied on decided that the word 'direct' was not to be considered in its economic sense, does not appear from the argument.”