Government and Politics
The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.3.5 · 19 votes · 50 reads
Society
The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.4.2 · 33 votes · 172 reads
Government and Politics
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.3.5 · 64 votes · 56 reads
Art and Culture
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.4.2 · 55 votes · 111 reads
Feelings
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.4.0 · 25 votes · 71 reads
Thought and Reason
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.4.6 · 14 votes · 80 reads
Thought and Reason
There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.3.2 · 51 votes · 95 reads
Defects
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.3.9 · 41 votes · 183 reads
Thought and Reason
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.4.8 · 51 votes · 69 reads
Government and Politics
This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man c4.2 · 48 votes · 165 reads
Thought and Reason
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.3.5 · 17 votes · 10 reads
Thought and Reason
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.3.4 · 24 votes · 35 reads
Time
To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.4.1 · 42 votes · 99 reads
Feelings
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.3.3 · 37 votes · 75 reads
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