Quotes · page 11

It is the subjects which might be imitated by pieces of paper of varying depth of color laid one over the other, which are the subjects that will give more readily the greater satisfaction.

I mark this day with a white stone.

Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name.

It is the duty of every man, so far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

Force is not a fact at all, but an idea embodying what is approximately the fact.

The constitution as agreed to till a fortnight before the convention rose was such a one as he could have set his hand and heart to.

My only consolation has been to read up the history of Ireland in Lecky and our abominable treatment of her. All the faults of the Irish character are traceable to that.

Drink, my jolly lads, drink with discerning, Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning; Never was owl more blind than a lover, Drink and be merry, lads, half seas over.

in the unliterary grammar of life, where the future tense stands first, and the past is formed, not from the indefinite, but from the present indicative, "to have been" is "to be".

And of universal nature, the notion I would offer, should be something like this. Nature is the aggregate of the bodies, that make up the world, in its present state, considered as a principle, by virtue whereof, they act and suffer, …

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

With Hâjî Abdû the soul is not material, for that would be a contradiction of terms. He regards it, with many moderns, as a state of things, not a thing; a convenient word denoting the sense of personality, of individual identity.

When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter's mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

The British ambassador was Sir Robert Morier. He too was a strong character, though lacking apparently in some of General [der Infanterie] von Schweinitz's more kindly qualities. He was big, roughish, and at times so brusque that he might …

This moment's Tiber with his shining eyes Never saw Rome before.

Animals of the MONKEY class are furnished with hands instead of paws; their ears, eyes, eye-lids, lips, and breasts, are like those of mankind; their internal conformation also bears some distant likeness; and the whole offers a picture …

The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.

I must stop to lament, that we cannot evince an admiring gratitude towards other excellent things by a like readiness of quotation: that we cannot, for instance, quote a star that we have been watching; or a hue of sunset; or a friend's …

Ah star of evil! star of pain! Highhearted youth comes not again

A man can sometimes hold his own with one woman, but never with two.

That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own.

Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem!

"Thank God, I — I also — am an American!"

The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.