Quotes · page 1620

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Behold and see! For by the same Might, Wisdom, and Goodness that I have done all this, by the same Might, Wisdom, and Goodness I shall make well all that is not well; and thou shalt see it.

A man's honest, earnest opinion is the most precious of all he possesses: let him communicate this, if he is to communicate anything.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state

A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it. A feeble government, eluded Laws, A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles, And all the maladies of stinking states.

Day by day, religious conceptions grow less and less intense. Day by day, the old spirit dies out of book and creed.

No candid observer will deny that whatever of good there may be in our American civilization is the product of Christianity.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

1943. If thou canst not find Tranquility in thyself; 'twill be to little Purpose to seek it anywhere else.

The leaves were gone from all, save where the pine Threw the wide shadow of its unchang'd green. I could not envy it that fadeless state.— Ah ! who would be the last, the only one That ruin spares—no ; if the blight must pass O'er all …

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they …

Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. …

The good King of France desires only that you would take his word and let him be quiet till he has got the West Indies into his hands and his grandson well established in Spain, and then you may be sure you shall be as safe as he will let …

Great Destiny, the commissary of God.

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

The best exponent of anarchist philosophy in ancient Greece was Zeno

This Sanatana Dharma has many scriptures: The Veda, the Vedanta, the Gita, the Upanishads, the Darshanas, the Puranas, the Tantras, nor could it reject the Bible or the Koran, but its real, the most authoritative scripture is in the heart …

Yes: in the sea of life enisl’d, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half brokenhearted, To sever for years.