💬 Quotes

"Love is the most remarkable of all the masters; it teaches dogs to know when their mistresses are thinking of them."

"Cruelty is the price we pay for civilization, and it is a price that dogs pay even more than men."

"The spaniel's long, silky ears were full of the hum of Italy; the bells of Florence rang in them day and night."

"Dog and human, they were two-in-one; and yet they were separate; and yet they were wonderful to each other."

"Sin is not a normal part of man's nature, but a paralysis, a stagnation, a spiritual death which can only be counteracted by the introduction of a new life."

"He was of unusual height, with a fair complexion, handsome limbs, rather full eyes, and a somewhat defective mouth; but this was offset by his general health and vigor."

"Veni, vidi, vici ('I came, I saw, I conquered') — expressions of this sort in his despatches once more showed how effectively he had cut short the Zela campaign."

"Let them hate me, provided they fear me."

"What an artist dies in me!"

"He found a city of brick and left it of marble."

"An emperor ought to die standing."

"The problem of finding the longitude was deemed so important that in 1714 the British Parliament offered a gigantic reward—fully twenty thousand pounds—to anyone who could come up with a practical method."

"To find the longitude at sea, you must simply know what time it is aboard ship, and what time it is at the same moment at a place whose longitude is known."

"Galileo’s idea for finding longitude by observing the eclipses of Jupiter's moons was theoretically sound, but practically impossible on the rolling deck of a ship."

"John Harrison was not a trained academic or a master watchmaker of London; he was a carpenter's son from Yorkshire whose intuition for mechanics bypassed centuries of established dogma."

"His 'Sea Clock,' known as H-4, was a thing of rare beauty, operating on principles entirely different from pendulum clocks, designed to conquer friction and the expansion of metals under heat."

"For more than forty years, Harrison fought the scientific establishment, proving through perseverance that time was the secret key to mapping the oceans."

"The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from generation to generation."

"My analysis of the judicial process comes then to this, and little more: logic, and history, and custom, and utility, and the accepted standards of right conduct, are the forces which singly or in combination shape the progress of the law."

"The business of the judge is to isolate the retardative forces, whatever they may be, and make sure that they are kept within bounds."