💬 Quotes

"L'amour est un grand peintre; il ajoute des beautés qu'il invente à l'objet aimé."

"Le courage a cela de commun avec l'esprit qu'il n'a pas besoin de l'espérance."

"Un pays infortuné n'a pas même le droit d'avoir du talent."

"There are people who love to change everything they see, and there are those, who being born in a place, wish to live in it and die in it."

"The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is like the boggy ground of the Otsego, where a man is sure to sink, let him tread where he will."

"He was an infant in the arms of one of the great guardians of the forest; an immense oak that seemed to span the heavens."

"Cruelty to the brutes is a failing of the ignorant, but cruelty to the creation is the sin of a savage."

"Judge Temple had all his life been an innovator, and it was with a secret reluctance that he saw his own changes become matters of history."

"A man who has lived in the forest all his life is a poor judge of the ways of the settlements, and a man who has lived in the settlements is a blind judge of the ways of the forest."

"Because man has hitherto for the most part shaped his views of the universe in accordance with his own ignorant preconceptions, he has inadvertently filled it with phantoms and hobgoblins of his own creation."

"Magic is a spurious system of natural law as well as a fallacious guide of life; it is a false science as well as an abortive art."

"The fatal flaw of magic lies not in its assumption that the same causes produce the same effects—a assumption which it shares with science—but in its total misconception of the nature of the particular causes which produce them."

"As in the ages gone by, the king was slain in the character of a god, so now he is slain in the character of a representative of the people."

"We must not be surprised to find that custom persists long after the reason for it has been forgotten, and that myths are often invented to explain practices whose true origin is lost in the mists of antiquity."

"Without the path cleared by magic and religion, the scientific intellect of man could hardly have found its way through the vast and dark labyrinth of nature."

"Civil disobedience is not our only weapon, but it is the ultimate one by which men who lack power can make their conscience felt."

"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place."

"A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions."

"It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice."

"Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks..."