Quotes · page 26

So from a brazen vase the trembling stream Reflects the lunar or the solar beam: Swift and elusive of the dazzled eyes, From wall to wall the dancing glory flies: Thence to the ceiling shoot the glancing rays, And o'er the roof the …

I want to elevate you to take positions in law offices, in stores, on farms, and wherever you are capable of going.

Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,—not dead, but gone before,— He gathers round him.

Death was now armed with a new terror.

I would rather be right than be President.

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

The pen is almost as pretty an implement in a woman's fingers, as a needle.

Being alive is the Magic—being strong is the Magic.

If Moses then was endued with supernatural knowledge, it is no longer probable only, but absolutely certain, that the whole race of man proceeded from Iran as from a centre, whence they migrated at first in three great colonies; and that …

The government of the United States, under the conduct of the Democratic Party, has been all that time surrendering one plain and castle after another to slavery.

Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to whorship God.

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

And when I hearken to the Earth, she saith: 'My fiery heart shrinks, aching. It is death. Mine ancient scars shall not be glorified, Nor my titanic tears, the seas, be dried.'

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

I think I could eat one of Bellamy's mutton pies.

The law which asserts that the equation X = 0, complete or incomplete, can have no more real positive roots than it has changes of sign, and no more real negative roots than it has permanences of sign, was apparently known to Cardan; but a …

QUEEN: But Hymen's torch, held downward, shall drop out, And for it, the mad Furies swing their brands About the bride-chamber.

...he must need wish in a hurry; and wish he did, that the black pudding may come off his nose.

O unbelievers, I will not worship that which ye worship, nor will ye worship that which I worship. ... Ye have your religion, and I my religion.

The love of God consists in an ardent desire to procure the general welfare, and reason teaches me that there is nothing which contributes more to the general welfare of mankind than the perfection of reason.

Every bureaucracy, therefore, in accord with the peculiar emphasis on its own position, tends to generalize its own experience and to overlook the fact that the realm of administration and of smoothly functioning order represents only a …

When at length they rose to go to bed, it struck each man as he followed his neighbour upstairs that the one before him walked very crookedly.

The wheel of Fortune tourneth as a ball; Sodeyn clymbyng axeth a sodeyn fall.