Quotes

“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner”

“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are”

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business”

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy”

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year”

“As liars, by the frequent repetition of their lies, come at last to remember them”

“When the imagination, from any extraordinary ferment of the blood and spirits, acquires such a vivacity as disorders all its powers and faculties, there is no means of distinguishing betwixt truth and falshood”

“reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas”

“they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement”

“The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations”

“I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am placed in my philosophy, and fancy myself some strange uncouth monster”

“Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium”

“I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends”

“Where reason is lively, and mixes itself with some propensity, it ought to be assented to”

“the minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each others emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated”

“Morality, therefore, is more properly felt than judged of”

“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man”

“The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation”

“All the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, _Relations of Ideas_, and _Matters of Fact”

“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life”

“nor has rhubarb always proved a purge, or opium a soporific to every one, who has taken these medicines”

“A man in health possesses more of it than one languishing with sickness. We are more master of our thoughts in the morning than in the evening: Fasting, than after a full meal”

“Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular”

“A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence”

“If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he relates; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion”

“Nature is always too strong for principle”

“Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion”

“The Candle that is set up in us shines bright enough for all our purposes”

“For they do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning, but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths; and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles”

“a man who is very sober, and of a right understanding in all other things, may in one particular be as frantic as any in Bedlam”

“For the colour and taste of opium are, as well as its soporific or anodyne virtues, mere powers, depending on its primary qualities”

“it is but a supposed I know not what, to support those ideas we call accidents”

“every one sees he would be the same PERSON with the prince, accountable only for the prince’s actions: but who would say it was the same MAN”

“But is not a man drunk and sober the same person? why else is he punished for the fact he commits when drunk, though he be never afterwards conscious of it”

“use the consolations of reason in this case, and you were as good preach ease to one on the rack, and hope to allay, by rational discourses, the pain of his joints tearing asunder”

“A friend of mine knew one perfectly cured of madness by a very harsh and offensive operation”

“though in that chamber he could dance excellently well, yet it was only whilst that trunk was there”

“every great philosophy up till now has consisted of--namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious auto-biography”

“A living thing seeks above all to DISCHARGE its strength--life itself is WILL TO POWER; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent RESULTS thereof”

“a thought comes when "it" wishes, and not when "I" wish”

“Wherever the religious neurosis has appeared on the earth so far, we find it connected with three dangerous prescriptions as to regimen: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence”

“I did that," says my memory. "I could not have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually--the memory yields”

“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”

“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology”

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night”

“skepticism is the most spiritual expression of a certain many-sided physiological temperament, which in ordinary language is called nervous debility and sickliness”

“The discipline of suffering, of GREAT suffering--know ye not that it is only THIS discipline that has produced all the elevations of humanity hitherto”

“There is MASTER-MORALITY and SLAVE-MORALITY”

“Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men”

“the negro”

“Struck dead by an angel of God. Yet the angel must hang”

“God bless Captain Vere”

“The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it”

“I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift up your feet when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.”

“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.”

“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.”

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.”

“I saw something nasty in the woodshed!”

“You might as well live.”

“Why is it no one ever sent me yet / One perfect limousine, do you suppose?”

“To Carthage I came, where there sang all around me in my ears a cauldron of unholy loves”

“At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death”

“Take up and read; Take up and read”

“Too late loved I Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! too late I loved Thee”

“I have entered upon a performance which is without example, whose accomplishment will have no imitator. I mean to present my fellow-mortals with a man in all the integrity of nature; and this man shall be myself”

“let each in his turn expose with equal sincerity the failings, the wanderings of his heart, and, if he dare, aver, I was better than that man”

“my birth cost my mother her life, and was the first of my misfortunes”

“I did not fear punishment, but I dreaded shame: I dreaded it more than death, more than the crime, more than all the world”

“My arteries began beating so violently that I not only felt their motion, but even heard it, particularly that of the carotids, attended by a loud noise in my ears”

“Till now, I had been a great sleeper, but a total privation of repose, with other alarming symptoms which have accompanied it, even to this time, persuaded me I had but a short time to live”

“It is certain my disorder was in a great measure hypochondriacal”

“I could not read the description of any malady without thinking it mine, and, had I not been already indisposed, I am certain I should have become so from this study”

“These gentlemen understood nothing of my illness, therefore concluded I could not be ill”

“I was in an agitation which approached a delirium”

“A defect in the bladder caused me, during my early years, to suffer an almost continual retention of urine”

“I followed this indication, and determined to cure myself or die without the aid of physicians and medicine”

“At length, notwithstanding all I could say and do, the physician triumphed, and the child died of hunger”

“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind”

“Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected”

“We here propose to do just what COPERNICUS did in attempting to explain the celestial movements”

“The light dove cleaving in free flight the thin air, whose resistance it feels, might imagine that her movements would be far more free and rapid in airless space”

“The “I think” must accompany all my representations, for otherwise something would be represented in me which could not be thought”

“their representations may very well be the mere products of the imagination (in dreams as well as in madness”

“But this land is an island, and enclosed by nature herself within unchangeable limits. It is the land of truth (an attractive word), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the region of illusion”

“A hundred real dollars contain no more than a hundred possible dollars”

“scepticism is merely a means of awakening reason from its dogmatic dreams and exciting it to a more careful investigation into its own powers and pretensions”

“1. WHAT CAN I KNOW? 2. WHAT OUGHT I TO DO? 3. WHAT MAY I HOPE”

“I was booked to make a mistake. I have lived too long in foreign parts”

“Barkis is willin”

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”

“Janet! Donkeys”

“I am well aware that I am the umblest person going”

“O Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed”

“Naturale autem est homini ut sit animal sociale et politicum, in multitudine vivens, magis etiam quam omnia alia animalia”

“Some subterranean stream found an outlet here, was released from darkness. The result was grass and trees and flowers and human life”

“Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.”

“A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.”

“External objects press in upon him; passions solicit him; his philosophical melancholy dissipates”

“You will find it to be nothing but one great machine, subdivided into an infinite number of lesser machines”

“Many worlds might have been botched and bungled, throughout an eternity, ere this system was struck out”

“The world plainly resembles more an animal or a vegetable, than it does a watch or a knitting-loom”

“they are nothing in comparison of those which arise within ourselves, from the distempered condition of our mind and body”

“Remorse, shame, anguish, rage, disappointment, anxiety, fear, dejection, despair; who has ever passed through life without cruel inroads from these tormentors”

“Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses”

“We are terrified, not bribed to the continuance of our existence”

“Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil”

“But what racking pains, on the other hand, arise from gouts, gravels, megrims, toothaches, rheumatisms, where the injury to the animal machinery is either small or incurable”

“The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, impregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children”

“To be a philosophical Sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian”

“I cannot but think, that PHILO's principles are more probable than DEMEA's; but that those of CLEANTHES approach still nearer to the truth”

“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess”

“The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations”

“resolved no longer to seek any other science than the knowledge of myself, or of the great book of the world”

“imitating in this the example of travelers who, when they have lost their way in a forest, ought not to wander from side to side, far less remain in one place, but proceed constantly towards the same side in as straight a line as possible”

“My _third_ maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world”

“the mind by which I am what I am, is wholly distinct from the body, and is even more easily known than the latter”

“I need only mention in reply what has been written by a physician of England, who has the honor of having broken the ice on this subject”

“Such persons will look upon this body as a machine made by the hands of God, which is incomparably better arranged, and adequate to movements more admirable than is any machine of human invention”

“they could never use words or other signs arranged in such a manner as is competent to us in order to declare our thoughts to others”

“and thus render ourselves the lords and possessors of nature”

“for the mind is so intimately dependent upon the condition and relation of the organs of the body, that if any means can ever be found to render men wiser and more ingenious than hitherto, I believe that it is in medicine they must be sought for”

“we could free ourselves from an infinity of maladies of body as well as of mind, and perhaps also even from the debility of age”

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul”

“My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoöphagous (life-eating) maniac”

“We want no proofs; we ask none to believe us”

“Praised be my Lord for our sister water, who is very serviceable unto us and humble and precious and clean”

“Praised be my Lord for our sister, the death of the body, from which no man escapeth”

“The doctors, having exhausted the therapeutic arsenal of the time, decided to resort to cauterization; it was decided to draw a rod of white-hot iron across his forehead”

“Brother fire," he said, "you are beautiful above all creatures; be favorable to me in this hour; you know how much I have always loved you; be then courteous to-day”

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—'Thou mayest'—that gives a choice.”

“he must learn to recognise the beauty in the arts, sciences, virtues; then these severed and particular forms must be brought under the one principle”

“Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves”

“MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other”

“Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible”

“It is as natural to die, as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful, as the other”

“REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out”

“Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed”

“HE THAT hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief”

“you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend”

“for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves”

“a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health”

“As for the passions, and studies of the mind; avoid envy, anxious fears; anger fretting inwards; subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys and exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated”

“Physicians are, some of them, so pleasing and conformable to the humor of the patient, as they press not the true cure of the disease; and some other are so regular, in proceeding according to art for the disease, as they respect not sufficiently the condition of the patient”

“Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like”

“Thus, reader, myself am the matter of my book: there’s no reason thou shouldst employ thy leisure about so frivolous and vain a subject”

“The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die has unlearned to serve”

“the very sight of another’s pain materially pains me, and I often usurp the sensations of another person”

“he found the same operation and effect that those do who have taken one indeed”

“If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I”

“every one gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country”

“When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me”

“This fancy will be more certainly understood by interrogation: “What do I know?” as I bear it with the emblem of a balance”

“I am in conflict with the worst, the most sudden, the most painful, the most mortal, and the most irremediable of all diseases”

“every man carries the entire form of human condition”

“I study myself more than any other subject; ‘tis my metaphysic, my physic”

“When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep”

“when seated upon the most elevated throne in the world, we are but seated upon our breech”

“in his unrelenting cruelty man is in no way inferior to the tiger and the hyaena”

“In every man there dwells, first and foremost, a colossal egoism, which breaks the bounds of right and justice with the greatest freedom”

“in hatred too, which stands to anger like a chronic to an acute disease, a man may indulge with the greatest delight”

“man is the only animal which causes pain to others without any further purpose than just to cause it”

“it is the will to live, which, more and more embittered by the constant sufferings of existence, seeks to alleviate its own torment by causing torment in others”

“But it is _Schadenfreude_, a mischievous delight in the misfortunes of others, which remains the worst trait in human nature”

“they are only masks, and, as a rule, behind the masks you will find moneymakers”

“A man's character, as my readers are aware, assuredly comes to him from his father”

“while our several actions are in no wise free, every man's individual character is to be regarded as a free act”

“The chief cause of intellectual diversity is to be found in the brain and nervous system”

“Compared with the Moral Law the State is a crutch instead of a limb, an automaton instead of a man”

“It is in their person that we become aware of human misery; we are filled with sympathy; and the result of this mood is general benevolence, philanthropy”

“PROP. XIII. The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body, in other words a certain mode of extension which actually exists, and nothing else”

“I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids”

“PROP. VI. Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavours to persist in its own being”

“II. Pleasure is the transition of a man from a less to a greater perfection”

“Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage”

“As I have heard tell of a certain Spanish poet, who had been seized with sickness, and though he recovered therefrom yet remained so oblivious of his past life, that he would not believe the plays and tragedies he had written to be his own”

“PROP. XLII. Mirth cannot be excessive, but is always good; contrariwise, Melancholy is always bad”

“But, in reality, Avarice, Ambition, Lust, &c., are species of madness, though they may not be reckoned among diseases”

“PROP. LIV. Repentance is not a virtue, or does not arise from reason; but he who repents of an action is doubly wretched or infirm”

“PROP. III. An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof”

“A decent chemist is twenty times as useful as any poet.”

“they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of 'indifferent' nature; they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.”

“This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made; but it was ever, is now, and ever shall be an ever-living Fire, with measures of it kindling, and measures going out.”

“War is the father of all and the king of all; and some he has made gods and some men, some bond and some free.”

“The way up and the way down is one and the same.”

“You cannot step twice into the same rivers; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you.”

“A man, when he gets drunk, is led by a beardless lad, tripping, knowing not where he steps, having his soul moist.”

“The dry soul is the wisest and best”

“Nature loves to hide.”

“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?”

“You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been”

“To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death”

“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world”

“The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials”

“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils”

“I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created”

“This was the commencement of a nervous fever which confined me for several months”

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous”

“Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful”

“I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together.”

“like a jewel, it would still shine by its own light, as a thing which has its whole value in itself”

“if adversity and hopeless sorrow have completely taken away the relish for life; if the unfortunate one, strong in mind, indignant at his fate rather than desponding or dejected, wishes for death, and yet preserves his life without loving it- not from inclination or fear, but from duty- then his maxim has a moral worth”

“Put the case that the mind of that philanthropist were clouded by sorrow of his own, extinguishing all sympathy with the lot of others”

“a gouty patient, for instance, can choose to enjoy what he likes, and to suffer what he may”

“The precepts for the physician to make his patient thoroughly healthy, and for a poisoner to ensure certain death, are of equal value in this respect, that each serves to effect its purpose perfectly”

“Would he have long life? who guarantees to him that it would not be a long misery? would he at least have health”

“happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”

“A man reduced to despair by a series of misfortunes feels wearied of life, but is still so far in possession of his reason that he can ask himself whether it would not be contrary to his duty to himself to take his own life”

“In the kingdom of ends everything has either value or dignity”

“we yet comprehend its incomprehensibility, and this is all that can be fairly demanded of a philosophy which strives to carry its principles up to the very limit of human reason”

“I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth”

“when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience”

“And this also has been one of the dark places of the earth.”

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much”

“the changes take place inside, you know”

“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future”

“Mistah Kurtz—he dead”

“Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man”

“the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James”

“For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the begining whereof is in some principall part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheeles as doth a watch) have an artificiall life”

“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body”

“Imagination therefore is nothing but Decaying Sense”

“Dejection, subjects a man to causelesse fears; which is a Madnesse commonly called MELANCHOLY, apparent also in divers manners; as in haunting of solitudes, and graves; in superstitious behaviour; and in fearing some one, some another particular thing”

“If some man in Bedlam should entertaine you with sober discourse; and you desire in taking leave, to know what he were, that you might another time requite his civility; and he should tell you, he were God the Father; I think you need expect no extravagant action for argument of his Madnesse”

“For the effect of the wine, does but remove Dissimulation; and take from them the sight of the deformity of their Passions”

“And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition”

“Which Venime I will not doubt to compare to the biting of a mad Dogge, which is a disease the Physicians call Hydrophobia, or Fear Of Water”

“And this is a Disease which not unfitly may be compared to the Epilepsie, or Falling-sicknesse (which the Jewes took to be one kind of possession by Spirits) in the Body Naturall”

“the Blood in a Pleurisie, getting into the Membrane of the breast, breedeth there an Inflammation, accompanied with a Fever, and painfull stitches”

“Taking, therefore, his sword with which he was girt, he divided his cloak into two equal parts, and gave one part to the poor man, while he again clothed himself with the remainder”

“Here he subsisted for some time on the roots of plants; and, while doing so, he took for food hellebore, which is, as people say, a poisonous kind of grass”

“But, after the lapse only of a few days, the catechumen, seized with a languor, began to suffer from a violent fever”

“O Lord, if I am still necessary to your people, I do not shrink from toil: your will be done”

“I’d rather see you poor men’s wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace”

“He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull”

“He was ‘one of us”

“In the destructive element immerse”

“He passes away under a cloud, inscrutable at heart, forgotten, unforgiven, and excessively romantic”

“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand”

“Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast”

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand”

“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”

“I am in blood Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er”

“Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. More needs she the divine than the physician”

“Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, / Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, / Raze out the written troubles of the brain, / And with some sweet oblivious antidote / Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart?”

“Throw physic to the dogs, I’ll none of it”

“About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady”

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called _more_ wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory”

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can have.”

“Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux, and the perception dull”

“Hippocrates after curing many diseases himself fell sick and died.”

“Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.”

“Think continually how many physicians are dead after often contracting their eyebrows over the sick”

“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present—I am rising to the work of a human being.”

“I wish my friends and enemies to understand that I disclaim the character of historian, but assume to be a witness on the stand before the great tribunal of history”

“There was no positive order to retreat, although for an hour it had been going on by the operation of the men themselves”

“the report that I was "crazy, insane, and mad," that "I had demanded two hundred thousand men for the defense of Kentucky”

“Before the battle of Shiloh, I had been cast down by a mere newspaper assertion of "crazy;" but that single battle had given me new life, and now I was in high feather”

“They worked day and night, and did not rest till all the wounded of our own troops as well as of the enemy were in safe and comfortable shelter”

“This is waste, but is the natural consequence of war, chargeable on those who caused the war”

“generally war is destruction and nothing else”

“We accepted the issue, and now they begin to realize that war is a two-edged sword, and it may be that many of the inhabitants cry for peace”

“In accepting war, it should be "pure and simple" as applied to the belligerents”

“I could not help reproaching myself for having consented to his visit in that sickly region in the summer-time”

“Being in the very midst of an important military enterprise, I had hardly time to pause and think of my personal loss”

“The child that bore my name, and in whose future I reposed with more confidence than I did in my own plan of life, now floats a mere corpse, seeking a grave in a distant land, with a weeping mother, brother, and sisters, clustered about him”

“Of shapes transformde to bodies straunge, I purpose to entreate”

“There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made”

“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy”

“Perhaps that is what we feel when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge.”

“In forming the plan of a campaign, it is requisite to foresee everything the enemy may do, and to be prepared with the necessary means to counteract it”

“The strength of an army, like the power in mechanics, is estimated by multiplying the mass by the rapidity”

“When an army carries with it a battering train, or large convoys of sick and wounded, it cannot march by too short a line upon its depôts”

“The first qualification of a soldier is fortitude under fatigue and privation. Courage is only the second; hardship, poverty and want, are the best school for a soldier”

“It is the height of injustice not to pay a veteran more than a recruit”

“They will terminate in the adoption of the worst course, which in war is always the most timid, or, if you will, the most prudent. The only true wisdom in a general is determined courage”

“Great extremities require extraordinary resolution. The more obstinate the resistance of an army, the greater the chances of assistance or of success”

“The first qualification in a general-in-chief is a cool head--that is, a head which receives just impressions, and estimates things and objects at their real value. He must not allow himself to be elated by good news, or depressed by bad”

“Some men are so physically and morally constituted as to see everything through a highly-colored medium”

“Peruse again and again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Cæsar, Gustavus Adolphus, Turenne, Eugene, and Frederick. Model yourself upon them”

“only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”

“Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own observation of what is passing around you”

“Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more”

“Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect; for nature is only subdued by submission”

“the specious meditations, speculations, and theories of mankind are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it”

“Four species of idols beset the human mind, to which (for distinction’s sake) we have assigned names, calling the first Idols of the Tribe, the second Idols of the Den, the third Idols of the Market, the fourth Idols of the Theatre.”

“But where are the portraits of those who have perished in spite of their vows”

“The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will”

“The former like ants only heap up and use their store, the latter like spiders spin out their own webs”

“We must not then add wings, but rather lead and ballast to the understanding, to prevent its jumping or flying”

“printing, gunpowder, and the compass. For these three have changed the appearance and state of the whole world”

“Now the empire of man over things is founded on the arts and sciences alone, for nature is only to be commanded by obeying her”

“Since, however, truth emerges more readily from error than confusion, we consider it useful to leave the understanding at liberty”

“But opiates, and the like, banish the spirits by their malignant and hostile quality”

“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.”

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you”

“If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed, but by answering; Because it was he, because it was my selfe.”

“His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant”

“if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth”

“He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation”

“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing”

“they are in peril of a commission _de lunatico_, and of having their property taken from them and given to their relations”

“If poisons were never bought or used for any purpose except the commission of murder, it would be right to prohibit their manufacture and sale”

“But to require in all cases the certificate of a medical practitioner, would make it sometimes impossible, always expensive, to obtain the article for legitimate uses”

“Drunkenness, for example, in ordinary cases, is not a fit subject for legislative interference”

“The principle of freedom cannot require that he should be free not to be free. It is not freedom, to be allowed to alienate his freedom”

“Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult—at least I have found it so—than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind”

“War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale”

“War therefore is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will”

“Now, philanthropists may easily imagine there is a skilful method of disarming and overcoming an enemy without great bloodshed, and that this is the proper tendency of the Art of War”

“a wonderful trinity, composed of the original violence of its elements, hatred and animosity, which may be looked upon as blind instinct; of the play of probabilities and chance, which make it a free activity of the soul; and of the subordinate nature of a political instrument, by which it belongs purely to the reason”

“War is the province of uncertainty: three-fourths of those things upon which action in War must be calculated, are hidden more or less in the clouds of great uncertainty”

“The young soldier cannot reach any of these different strata of danger without feeling that the light of reason does not move here in the same medium, that it is not refracted in the same manner as in speculative contemplation”

“By this comes to light for the inexperienced eye one of those things which put fetters in the dark, as it were, on the action of the mind, and wear out in secret the powers of the soul”

“Habit gives strength to the body in great exertion, to the mind in great danger, to the judgment against first impressions”

“How many trifling illnesses by that means become serious, how many serious ones become mortal”

“It has certainly a grammar of its own, but its logic is not peculiar to itself”

“Imagination.--It is that deceitful part in man, that mistress of error and falsity, the more deceptive that she is not always so”

“She makes men happy and sad, healthy and sick, rich and poor”

“If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps”

“We have another source of error in diseases. They spoil the judgment and the senses”

“When we are well we wonder what we would do if we were ill, but when we are ill we take medicine cheerfully; the illness persuades us to do so”

“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study”

“Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered”

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me”

“If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is”

“Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute”

“Jesus will be in agony even to the end of the world. We must not sleep during that time”

“Physicians will not heal thee, for thou wilt die at last. But it is I who heal thee, and make the body immortal”

“Later I was reduced almost to the point of death, and it became impossible for me to attend to anything for weeks”

“There was consumption in my father's family, two of his brothers having died of that disease, which made my symptoms more alarming”

“For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation”

“Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions”

“About one-third of the people with me died, either at Cruces or on the way to Panama”

“I managed to keep along very well until 1858, when I was attacked by fever and ague”

“It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him”

“The sight was more unendurable than encountering the enemy's fire, and I returned to my tree in the rain”

“I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made”

“I spent the night in bathing my feet in hot water and mustard, and putting mustard plasters on my wrists and the back part of my neck, hoping to be cured by morning”

“When the officer reached me I was still suffering with the sick headache, but the instant I saw the contents of the note I was cured”

“I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought”

“The universally kind feeling expressed for me at a time when it was supposed that each day would prove my last, seemed to me the beginning of the answer to "Let us have peace”

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation”

“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning”

“There was no wound, no blood, no visible bruise; but her eyes were closed, she breathed not, her face was like death”

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone”

“this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories”

“Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one”

“THE world is charged with the grandeur of God”

“If the state is the organisation of men seeking a common good, power and political position must be given to those who can forward this end”

“Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon”

“reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions”

“But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence”

“a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot, by compact, or his own consent, enslave himself to any one”

“Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy”

“Thus in the beginning all the world was America, and more so than that is now; for no such thing as money was any where known”

“And so lunatics and ideots are never set free from the government of their parents”

“Thus we are born free, as we are born rational; not that we have actually the exercise of either: age, that brings one, brings with it the other too”

“The great and chief end, therefore, of men’s uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property”

“But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people”

“The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex”

“Marianne’s abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinor’s. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation”

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone”

“Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby”

“Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate”

“For I know well that ye are Sir Gawain, whom all the world worships, wheresoever ye may ride”

“The earliest historical account of the veneration of St. Dymphna dates from the middle of the thirteenth century”

“This narrative is without any historical foundation, being merely a variation of the story of the king who wanted to marry his own daughter, a motif which appears frequently in popular legends”

“The insane are treated in a peculiar manner; it is only in the beginning that they are placed in an institution for observation; later they are given shelter in the homes of the inhabitants, take part in their agricultural labours, and are treated very kindly”

“Ego Patricius peccator, rusticissimus et minimus omnium fidelium, et contemptibilissimus apud plurimos”

“Annorum eram tunc fere sedecim”

“Rogamus te, sancte puer, ut venias et adhuc ambules inter nos”

“Ego Patricius peccator indoctus scilicet Hiberione constitutus episcopum me esse fateor”

“And anon the knights smote him, and one of them smote off the crown of his head, and another brake the point of his sword upon the pavement”

“St. Vitus is appealed to, above all, against epilepsy, which is called St. Vitus's Dance, and he is one of the Fourteen Martyrs who give aid in times of trouble”

“Strasburg was visited by the "Dancing Plague" in the year 1418, and the same infatuation existed among the people there, as in the towns of Belgium and the Lower Rhine”

“Paracelsus divides the St. Vitus's dance into three kinds. First, that which arises from imagination (Vitista, Chorea imaginativa, aestimativa), by which the original Dancing Plague was to be understood”

“Our business here is only with that morbid sympathy by the aid of which the dancing mania of the Middle Ages grew into a real epidemic”

“Cosmas and Damian are regarded as the patrons of physicians and surgeons and are sometimes represented with medical emblems”

“Having been cured of a dangerous illness by the intercession of Cosmas and Damian, Justinian, in gratitude for their aid, rebuilt and adorned their church at Constantinople, and it became a celebrated place of pilgrimage”

“The physician saints were called anargyroi, unmercenaries, because their legends remember them as healers who did not take payment for medicine”

“At Piacenza, he himself was stricken with the plague”

“Everywhere the terrible scourge disappeared before his miraculous power”

“Diocletian, cruel emperor of Rome, commanded that Sebastian should be led into the middle of a field and there bound to a stake, and that his archers should shoot at him till he was as full of arrows as an urchin is full of pricks”

“If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist”

“Therefore some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call God”

“For the soul is the primary principle of our nourishment, sensation, and local movement; and likewise of our understanding”

“For when the act of the imagination is hindered by a lesion of the corporeal organ, for instance in a case of frenzy; or when the act of the memory is hindered, as in the case of lethargy, we see that a man is hindered from actually understanding things of which he had a previous knowledge”

“If, however, the evaporation be somewhat less, phantasms appear, but distorted and without sequence; thus it happens in a case of fever”

“so that sometimes while asleep a man may judge that what he sees is a dream, discerning, as it were, between things, and their images”

“thus of all animals he has the least sense of smell. For man needs the largest brain as compared to the body”

“Indeed, the commotion of the spirits and humors may be so great that such appearances may even occur to those who are awake, as is seen in mad people, and the like”

“The majority of men follow their passions, which are movements of the sensitive appetite, in which movements of the heavenly bodies can cooperate: but few are wise enough to resist these passions”

“Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine”

“So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a _boy_, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a _man”

“For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestation of virtue or vice”

“To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace.”

“All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy”

“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva's tower”

“I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy. There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no better cure than business”

“A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself”

“I had not time to lick it into form, as she doth her young ones”

“Melancholy in this sense is the character of mortality”

“The common sort define it to be a kind of dotage without a fever, having for his ordinary companions, fear and sadness, without any apparent occasion”

“puts study, contemplation, and continual meditation, as an especial cause of madness”

“one supposeth himself to be a dog, cock, bear, horse, glass, butter, &c”

“Musica est mentis medicina moestae, a roaring-meg against melancholy, to rear and revive the languishing soul”

“Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases”

“but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul”

“Waking, by reason of their continual cares, fears, sorrows, dry brains, is a symptom that much crucifies melancholy men, and must therefore be speedily helped, and sleep by all means procured”

“observe this short precept, give not way to solitariness and idleness. Be not solitary, be not idle”

“There have Laurence, many helde, and do holde this opinion, that there is no maner of thing, whiche lesse agreeth the one with the other, nor that is so much unlike, as the civil life to the Souldiours”

“for as muche as the errours that I maie happen to make by writing, may be without harme to any man corrected: but those the whiche of them be made in doyng cannot be knowen without the ruine of Empires”

“How much better thei should have doen (be it spoken without displeasure to any man) to have sought to been like the antiquitie in thinges strong, and sharpe, not in the delicate and softe: and in those that thei did in the Sunne, not in the shadowe”

“good he shall never bee judged, whom maketh an excersise thereof, where purposing alwaies to gaine thereby, it is requisite for hym to be ravenyng, deceiptfull, violente, and to have many qualities, the whiche of necessitie maketh hym not good”

“the whiche thinges thei overcame, with accustomyng the body to diseases, and with hardenyng it, to bee able to indure labour. And you knowe, how that in thinges accustomed, men suffer no grief”

“Then for to avoide infirmitie, thei did flie from places Fennie, or subjecte to hurtfull windes: whiche thei knewe not so well, by the qualitie of the situacion, as by the face of the inhabitours: for when thei sawe theim evill coloured, or swollen, or full of other infeccion, thei would not lodge there”

“those that fall sicke by chaunce, make them to bee cured of Phisicions: bicause a capitain hath no reamedie, when he hath to faight with sicknesse, and with an enemie: but nothing is so profitable, to maintaine the armie in health, as is the exercise”

“It is better to conquere the enemie with faminne, then with yron: in the victorie of which, fortune maie doe much more then valiantnesse”

“Nature breedeth few stronge menne, the industrie and the exercise maketh manie”

“Discipline maie doe more in warre, then furie”

“their studies wer, to prepare the body to diseases, and the minde not to feare perilles”

“bicause this Province seemes to bee altogether given, to raise up againe the thynges dedde, as is seen by the perfeccion that poesie, paintyng, and writing, is now brought unto”

“Sun Tzŭ said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State”

“There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare”

“To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself”

“Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions”

“5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble”

“and camp on hard ground, the army will be free from disease of every kind”

“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death”

“Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge, they will stand firm”

“Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content”

“Knowledge of the enemy’s dispositions can only be obtained from other men”

“Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams”

“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return”

“And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him”

“Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived”

“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones”

“Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts”

“They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick”

“My name is Legion: for we are many”

“Physician, heal thyself”

“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities”

“slowly recovering from a disease brought home from the field, made up his mind definitely regarding the "Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of _Music”

“might not this very Socratism be a sign of decline, of weariness, of disease, of anarchically disintegrating instincts”

“to view science through the optics of the artist, and art moreover through the optics of life”

“We take delight in the immediate apprehension of form; all forms speak to us; there is nothing indifferent, nothing superfluous”

“It is either under the influence of the narcotic draught, of which the hymns of all primitive men and peoples tell us, or by the powerful approach of spring penetrating all nature with joy, that those Dionysian emotions awake, in the augmentation of which the subjective vanishes to complete self-forgetfulness”

“There are some, who, from lack of experience or obtuseness, will turn away from such phenomena as "folk-diseases" with a smile of contempt or pity prompted by the consciousness of their own health”

“Knowledge kills action, action requires the veil of illusion--it is this lesson which Hamlet teaches”

“Here, in this extremest danger of the will, _art_ approaches, as a saving and healing enchantress”

“Greek tragedy had a fate different from that of all her older sister arts: she died by suicide, in consequence of an irreconcilable conflict”

“The dying Socrates_ became the new ideal of the noble Greek youths,--an ideal they had never yet beheld”

“the belief which first came to light in the person of Socrates,--the belief in the fathomableness of nature and in knowledge as a panacea”

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him”

“I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more.”

“When Caesar's letter was delivered to the consuls, they were with great difficulty, and a hard struggle of the tribunes, prevailed on to suffer it to be read in the senate”

“When they were brought before him he protected them from the insolence and taunts of the soldiers; told them in few words that they had not made him a grateful return, on their part, for his very extraordinary kindness to them, and dismissed them all in safety”

“Why should he hazard the loss of any of his men, even in a successful battle? Why should he expose soldiers to be wounded; who had deserved so well of him? Why, in short, should he tempt fortune? especially when it was as much a general's duty to conquer by tactics, as by the sword”

“struggling moreover with a fatal pestilence, from their long confinement and change of victuals (for they all subsisted on old millet and damaged barley, which they had formerly provided and laid up in the public stores against an emergency of this kind”

“But Curio declared that he would never more appear in Caesar's sight, after losing the army which had been committed by Caesar to his charge, and accordingly fought till he was killed”

“There was a sort of root, called chara, discovered by the troops which served under Valerius. This they mixed up with milk, and it greatly contributed to relieve their want”

“that they themselves were not in good health from their confinement within so narrow a compass, from the noisome smell, the number of carcasses, and the constant fatigue to them, being men unaccustomed to work, and labouring under a great want of water”

“many fell victims to the autumnal pestilence in Italy, many returned home, and many were left behind on the continent. Have you not heard that the cohorts at Brundisium are composed of invalids”

“General, I will act in such a manner to-day, that you will feel grateful to me living or dead”

“for there is a certain impetuosity of spirit and an alacrity implanted by nature in the hearts of all men, which is inflamed by a desire to meet the foe. This a general should endeavour not to repress, but to increase”

“he embarked in a small boat with a few attendants, and was there murdered by Achillas and Septimius”

“All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third”

“in most cases men willingly believe what they wish”

“Leap, fellow soldiers, unless you wish to betray your eagle to the enemy. I, for my part, will perform my duty to the commonwealth and my general”

“Cicero himself, though he was in very weak health, did not leave himself the night-time for repose, so that he was forced to spare himself by the spontaneous movement and entreaties of the soldiers”

“They wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another, and they think that men by this tenet are in a great degree excited to valour, the fear of death being disregarded”

“they who are troubled with unusually severe diseases and they who are engaged in battles and dangers, either sacrifice men as victims, or vow that they will sacrifice them, and employ the Druids as the performers of those sacrifices”

“Thus, being excited by the massacre at Genabum and the fatigue of the siege, they spared neither those worn out with years, women, or children”

“To be unable to bear privation for a short time is disgraceful cowardice, not true valour. Those who voluntarily offer themselves to death are more easily found than those who would calmly endure distress”

“supported life by the corpses of those who appeared useless for war on account of their age, and did not surrender to the enemy”

“When these came to the Roman fortifications, weeping, they begged of the soldiers by every entreaty to receive them as slaves and relieve them with food. But Caesar, placing guards on the rampart, forbade them to be admitted”

“Accordingly he cut off the hands of those who had borne arms against him. Their lives he spared, that the punishment of their rebellion might be the more conspicuous”

“"Death is finished," he said to himself. "It is no more!"”

“I believe in God the Father Almighty [Maker of heaven and earth”

“We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible”

“Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father”

“one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten”

“Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith”

“And when the holy man Nicholas knew hereof he had great horror of this villainy, and threw by night secretly into the house of the man a mass of gold wrapped in a cloth”

“St. Valentine, friend of our Lord and priest of great authority, was at Rome”

“Saint George said to them, "Doubt not. Believe in God and Jesus Christ, and be baptized, and I shall slay the dragon”

“The child answered: "Marvel thee nothing, Christopher, for thou hast not only borne all the world upon thee, but thou hast borne him that created and made all the world upon thy shoulders”

“The king established a church there in honor of Our Lady and of Saint George, in which there flows to this day a fountain of living water that heals sick people who drink from it”

“Then they drew out their swords and smote her through the throat, but nevertheless she died not anon, but preached to the people”

“This is the Showing forth of the Inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassos, to the end that neither the deeds of men may be forgotten by lapse of time”

“I say to her: “If you still have pains, it is really only your own fault”

“I think that after all I must be overlooking some organic affection”

“the content of the dream is thus the fulfilment of a wish; its motive is a wish”

“What does the goose dream of”

“King Oedipus, who has struck his father Laius dead and has married his mother Jocasta, is nothing but the realised wish of our childhood”

“Like Oedipus, we live in ignorance of the wishes that offend morality, wishes which nature has forced upon us”

“Hamlet can do everything but take vengeance upon the man who has put his father out of the way, and has taken his father’s place with his mother”

“Father, don’t you see that I am burning”

“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic”

“enlighten the eyes of our mind to guide our feet into the way of that peace "which surpasses all understanding”

“The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.”

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows”

“Such was the end, Echecrates, of our friend; concerning whom I may truly say, that of all the men of his time whom I have known, he was the wisest and justest and best”

“Mark but this flea, and mark in this, / How little that which thou deniest me is”

“As virtuous men pass mildly away, / And whisper to their souls to go”

“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so”

“Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back, / Guilty of dust and sin.”

“I struck the board, and cried, 'No more; / I will abroad!'”

“They are all gone into the world of light”

“Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime.”

“But at my back I always hear / Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near”

“My name is Arthur Gordon Pym”

“Hold your peace, my good fellow, and do not be so foolish as to provoke this savage creature further.”

“I see the man”

“This, according to the statement of Ctesias the surgeon, who further states that he himself healed the wound.”

“what he sought after insatiably was wealth. Rule he sought after only as a stepping-stone to larger spoils”

“As soon as he was fully awake, the first clear thought which came into his head was, Why am I lying here”

“appointed eight surgeons to attend to the many wounded”

“many of the men were afflicted with "boulimia" (or hunger-faintness”

“disabled soldiers, struck down with snow-blindness or with toes mortified by frostbite”

“Presently they could hear the soldiers shouting and passing on the joyful word, "The sea! the sea”

“A small dose produced a condition not unlike violent drunkenness, a large one an attack very like a fit of madness, and some dropped down, apparently at death's door”

“on the third or fourth day got on their legs again like convalescents after a severe course of medical treatment”

“by the same token we shall all one day be dead, but that is no reason why meantime we should all be buried alive”

“sitting down and keeping quiet helped the blood to freeze and the toes to mortify”

“as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure”

“For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer”

“how one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation”

“Hence it is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity”

“men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony”

“men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because it belongs to everybody to see you, to few to come in touch with you”

“Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less”

“fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her”

“Italy, left as without life, waits for him who shall yet heal her wounds”

“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state”

“Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar”

“An hysterical woman abandons part of her consciousness because she is too weak nervously to hold it together”

“It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described”

“a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him_ and carry an image of him in their mind”

“Every one knows what attention is. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought”

“My experience is what I agree to attend to”

“Mad with the joy of victory and religious frenzy, they rushed upon him and, while he disdained even to fire his revolver, stabbed him in many places”

“Presently those who attended him could doubt no longer that he was attacked by typhus fever”

“When they fell sick, they were sent to hospital instead of being flogged”

“But of the first thousand cases between Assuan and Suarda nearly eight hundred proved fatal”

“The violence of the battle may be cheaply braved, but the insidious attacks of disease appal the boldest”

“Victory is the beautiful, bright-coloured flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed”

“The columns were encumbered with wounded, most of whom were already in a high state of fever, and whose sufferings were painful to witness”

“hundreds of tiny white figures heaped or scattered; dozens hopping, crawling, staggering away”

“by a stupid and grievous mistake the three regular hospital barges, duly prepared for the reception of the wounded, had been towed across to the right bank”

“Thus ended the battle of Omdurman--the most signal triumph ever gained by the arms of science over barbarians”

“Women and children lay frightfully mangled in the roadway. At one place a whole family had been crushed by a projectile”

“To yield to force is an act of necessity, not of will--at the most, an act of prudence. In what sense can it be a duty”

“each man, in giving himself to all, gives himself to nobody”

“Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole”

“the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad”

“It would take gods to give men laws”

“Most peoples, like most men, are docile only in youth; as they grow old they become incorrigible”

“I have a feeling that some day that little island will astonish Europe”

“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction”

“The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament”

“If any one, after publicly recognising these dogmas, behaves as if he does not believe them, let him be punished by death: he has committed the worst of all crimes, that of lying before the law”

“Charles the King, our Lord and Sovereign, Full seven years hath sojourned in Spain, Conquered the land, and won the western main”

“Pass that by. I was thirteen when I had a Voice from God for my help and guidance. The first time that I heard this Voice, I was very much frightened; it was mid-day, in the summer, in my father's garden”

“If I were in a wood, I could easily hear the Voice which came to me. It seemed to me to come from lips I should reverence. I believe it was sent me from God”

“I have answered it, and will not, without the leave of Our Lord, reveal what has been revealed to me”

“I would He might send me yet more, so that it might be discerned that I am come from God and that it is He Who hath sent me”

“Medical materialism finishes up Saint Paul by calling his vision on the road to Damascus a discharging lesion of the occipital cortex, he being an epileptic”

“God has two families of children on this earth”

“Life had been enchanting, it was now flat sober, more than sober, dead”

“He was a typical case of the psychopathic temperament, sensitive of conscience to a diseased degree, beset by doubts, fears, and insistent ideas, and a victim of verbal automatisms, both motor and sensory”

“suddenly there fell upon me without any warning, just as if it came out of the darkness, a horrible fear of my own existence”

“That shape am I_, I felt, potentially”

“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature”

“Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes”

“Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they fail to give a map”

“what he knows is not a sun and an earth, but only an eye that sees a sun, a hand that feels an earth”

“The act of will and the movement of the body are not two different things objectively known, which the bond of causality unites”

“Teeth, throat, and bowels are objectified hunger; the organs of generation are objectified sexual desire”

“delirium falsifies perception, madness the thoughts”

“the thread of memory is broken, the continuity of its connection destroyed, and no uniformly connected recollection of the past is possible”

“terrified Nature seizes upon _madness_ as the last resource of life”

“we keep the Sabbath of the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still”

“music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason”

“All satisfaction, or what is commonly called happiness, is always really and essentially only _negative_, and never positive”

“Far from being denial of the will, suicide is a phenomenon of strong assertion of will”

“It is starvation, voluntarily chosen on the ground of extreme asceticism”

“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star”

“A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death”

“No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day”

“Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage—it is called Self; it dwelleth in thy body, it is thy body”

“The streak of chalk bewitcheth the hen; the stroke he struck bewitched his weak reason. Madness AFTER the deed, I call this”

“Die at the right time: so teacheth Zarathustra”

“Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient”

“It was”: thus is the Will’s teeth-gnashing and lonesomest tribulation called”

“The shepherd however bit as my cry had admonished him; he bit with a strong bite! Far away did he spit the head of the serpent—: and sprang up”

“For singing is for the convalescent; the sound ones may talk”

“How long have I investigated this one thing, the brain of the leech, so that here the slippery truth might no longer slip from me”

“Was THAT—life?’ will I say unto death. ‘Well! Once more”

“The soul was first made by him—the elder to rule the younger; not in the order in which our wayward fancy has led us to describe them, but the soul first and afterwards the body”

“Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance”

“What means are there of determining which is the acutest of two pains, or the intensest of two pleasurable sensations, except the general suffrage of those who are familiar with both”

“it is only those in whom the need of excitement is a disease, that feel the tranquillity which follows excitement dull and insipid, instead of pleasurable in direct proportion to the excitement which preceded it”

“Next to selfishness, the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory, is want of mental cultivation”

“Even that most intractable of enemies, disease, may be indefinitely reduced in dimensions by good physical and moral education, and proper control of noxious influences”

“In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility”

“He who saves a fellow creature from drowning does what is morally right, whether his motive be duty, or the hope of being paid for his trouble”

“Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack”

“The ultimate sanction, therefore, of all morality (external motives apart) being a subjective feeling in our own minds, I see nothing embarrassing to those whose standard is utility, in the question, what is the sanction of that particular standard”

“the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it”

“Will is the child of desire, and passes out of the dominion of its parent only to come under that of habit”

“To have a right, then, is, I conceive, to have something which society ought to defend me in the possession of”

“Thus, to save a life, it may not only be allowable, but a duty, to steal, or take by force, the necessary food or medicine, or to kidnap, and compel to officiate, the only qualified medical practitioner”