Quotes · page 1613

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.

Discourse of Port de Set with P. & Mr. [blank] at Petit Paris, & the teaching biding to cheat the Hugenots: Nulla fides servanda cum Hereticis, nisi satis validi sunt ad se defendendos [faith need not be kept with heretics].

Immensity, cloister'd in thy dear womb, Now leaves His well-beloved imprisonment.

I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,—the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can …

Vladimir Ilyich, your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.

The year of detention was meant only for a year of seclusion and of training.

But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original …

Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

We believe he does not object to the "Virginia Minstrels," "Christy's Minstrels," the "Ethiopian Serenaders," or any of the filthy scum of white society, who have stolen from us a complexion denied to them by nature, in which to make …

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

Without madness what is man more than the healthy beast, corpse adjourned that procreates?

That nature will follow to-morrow the same laws that she follows to-day is, they all admit, a truth which no man can know; but in the interests of cognition as well as of action we must postulate or assume it.

We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long alive but whose appearance we know through their portraits.

Free Trade may be the alpha, but it is not the omega, of Liberal policy.

My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away; And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect we trample are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

'Tis God gives skill, But not without men's hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari's violins Without Antonio.

In the world of thought a man’s rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, "O Soul, make merry and carouse, Dear soul, for all is well."