Quotes · page 12

Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.

Strike! Thou the Master, we Thy keys, The anthem of the destinies! The minor of Thy loftier strain, Our hearts shall breathe the old refrain — "Thy will be done!"

I had been trying to find a publisher who would put some of my stuff into book form, but I met with no encouragement. Every well-known publisher in the United States turned down Tarzan of the Apes, including A.C. McClurg & Co., who finally …

Harriet lived in Connecticut and influenced antislavery in her book "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Harriet was a optimist who expressed her feelings by writing. Harriet was listed as one of the people who started the civil war. She started it from …

Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery, never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of …

Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

Be humble. It becomes a creature, a depending and borrowed being, that lives not of itself, but breathes in another's air with another's breath, and is accountable for every moment of time and can call nothing its own, but is absolutely a …

That blot on the peace of the world, the Treaty of Versailles, is vanishing, and for that I am thankful... France has again had a severe lesson, and I hope it will take it this time. In any event the folly of pandering to it by standing …

There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.

The consciousness of a mind disposed to contribute to the happiness of the minutest being … shall afford you a much greater and more heartfelt satisfaction than to be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day.

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Since the communists cannot enter upon the decisive struggle between themselves and the bourgeoisie until the bourgeoisie is in power, it follows that it is in the interest of the communists to help the bourgeoisie to power as soon as …

That's Article 98; now go on to the next.

An enemy's praise heralds all treachery, And grows the sweeter as revenge looks surer!

Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of …

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

It was well that I quitted it at last and walked again into that clear light which I had foolishly forsaken.

I believe, like you, that civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence, whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

Wild dreams! but such As Plato lov'd; such as with holy zeal Our Milton worshipp'd. Blessed hopes! awhile From man with-held, even to the latter days When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill'd.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed — I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

;De nobis, post haec, tristis sententia fertur!:After all this, you still speak ill of us!

Words have a separate effect on the mind abstracted from their signification and their imitative power; they are more or less agreeable to the ear by the fulness.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.