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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

Firsts Quotes

Rage is essentially vulgar.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

Why aren’t more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren’t within everybody’s reach.

Country Quotes

Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted.

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso’er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

Mr. Lyell’s system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.

Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its maturity.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.

Strong Quotes

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God’s wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock – the priceless gems and gold – is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

Blest hour! It was a luxury – to be!

But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts.

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