| Quotes |
Topic |
| Invention | Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, |
| Land | If a man owns land, the land owns him. |
| Language | Language is fossil poetry. |
| Language | Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, |
| Language | Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. |
| Law | No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. |
| Leadership | If you shoot at a king you must kill him. |
| Learning | I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son. |
| Libraries | The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books, and I think no chair is so much needed. |
| Lies | Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. |
| Life | The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded, each sacrifice is made up, every debt is paid. |
| Light | Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. |
| Light | Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. |
| Listening | The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. |
| Literature | People do not deserve to have good writings, they are so pleased with the bad. |
| Literature | Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature. |
| Literature | I can find my biography in every fable that I read. |
| Literature | People do not deserve to have good writings, they are so pleased with bad. |
| London | London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day. |
| Love | All mankind loves a lover. |
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