JUSTICE -see God, Gratitude, Happiness, Praise, Revenge, Society. There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. 2890 Addison: The Guardian. No. 99. Liberty, equality, — bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice, and justice towards the feeble becomes necessarily protection or kindness, 2891 Amiel Journal, Dec. 4, 1863. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. 2892 Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France. Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe. 2893 Burke: Letter, October, 1789. The great soul of this world is just. To a French 2894 Carlyle: Life in London, by Froude. Letter, June 12, 1847. To Thomas Erskine, Linlathen. Justice commands us to have mercy upon all men, to consult the interests of the whole human race, to give to every one his due, and to injure no sacred, public, or foreign rights, and to forbear touching what does not belong to us. 2895 Cicero: Orations. On the Republic. Bk. iii. Ch. 12. (Yonge, Translator.) What I do not wish men to do to me, I also wish not to do to them. 2896 Confucius: Analects. Bk. v. Ch. 11. (Legge, Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. 2897 Daniel De Foe: Shortest Way with Dissenters. Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Speech. House of Joubert: Pensées. No. 208. (Attwell, Trans.) Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. 2899 Emerson: Lecture, Boston, May 30, 1878. The Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. 2900 Epictetus: Fragments. CHI. (Long, Translator.) Above all other things is justice: success is a good thing; wealth is good also; honor is better; but justice excels them all. David Dudley Field: Speeches, Arguments, and Miscellaneous Papers. Law Reform. Rights of Parties and Duties of Counsel. Address, March 18, 1876. 2901 Justice is the great end of civil society. David Dudley Field: Speeches, Arguments, and To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which man can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels. 2903 David Dudley Field: Speeches, Arguments, and Justice without wisdom is impossible. 2904 Froude: Short Studies on Great Subjects. Party Justice is the virtue that innocence rejoiceth in. 2905 Ben Jonson: Timber; or, Discoveries made upon Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which, like him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice. 2906 Kossuth: Select Speeches. Public Piracy of Delay of justice is injustice. 2907 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. Peter Leopold and the President Du Paty. Exact justice is commonly more merciful in the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens. 2908 Lowell: Among My Books. Dante. Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will be regarded as just, without being examined, since they are established. 2909 Pascal: Thoughts. Ch. vii., vi. (Wight, Translator. Louandre edition.) It is impossible to be just if one is not generous. 2910 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Mind, Talent, Character. No. 109. (Hapgood, Trans.) We love justice greatly, and just men but little. 2911 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Mind, Talent, Character. No. 10. (Hapgood, Trans.) A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? 2912 Shakespeare: King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 6. Truth is its handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the gospel, it is the attribute of God. 2913 Sydney Smith: A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith, by Lady Holland. Ch. 2. While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others. To deny valor in the enemy we have conquered, is to underrate our victory; and if the enemy be strong enough to hold us at bay, much more to conquer us, self-respect bids us seek some other explanation of our misfortunes than accusing him of qualities inferior to our own. 2914 Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur. Bk. ii. Ch. 4. Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race. 2915 Daniel Webster: Discourse, Sept. 12, 1845. A man is lord in his own family, and his guests are, in a manner, subject to his own authority; hence, he is always the lowest person in the company, attentive to the wants of every one, and giving himself all the trouble, in order to please, which may not betray too visible an affectation, or impose too much restraint on his guest. 2916 Hume: Essays. XIII. Of the Rise and the Progress of the Arts and Sciences. 2917 Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him. Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac. Getting money is not all a man's business; to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. 2918 Johnson: Beswell's Life of Johnson. III. 182. (George Birkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) Kindness in us is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. 2919 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. Epicurus, One cannot help doing a good office when it comes in one's way. 2920 Le Sage: Gil Blas. Bk. iv. Ch. 9. (Smollett, KINGS - see Individuality, Judges, Monarchy, Patriotism, Punctuality, Royalty, Tyrants. Whoever is king, is also the father of his country. 2921 Congreve: Love for Love. Dedication. A good king is a public servant. In sovereignty it is a most happy thing not to be compelled; but so it is the most miserable thing not to be counselled. 2923 Ben Jonson: Timber; or, Discoveries made upon Men and Matter. As tedious as a king. Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing. KISSES --see Friends. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, its echo lasts a deal longer. 2925 but Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast-Table. His kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread. 2926 Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 4. Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career of laughter with a sigh? 2927 Shakespeare: A Winter's Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. KNAVERY -see Revenge, Secrecy. A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. 2928 Shakespeare: Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 2. A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. 2929 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 267. Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool. 2930 Marlowe The Jew of Malta. Act ii. A slippery and subtle knave; a finder of occasions, that has an eye can stamp and counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never present itself: a devilish knave! 2931 Shakespeare: Othello. Act ii. Sc. 1. Dogb. Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave. 2932 Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing. Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green. Pt. i. Act ii. Sc. 4. KNOWLEDGE- -see Art, Curiosity, Eloquence, Freedom, Love, Reading, Truth, Wisdom, Words, Zeal. Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. 2934 Addison: The Guardian. No. 3. What is all our knowledge? We do not even know what weather it will be to-morrow. 2935 Auerbach: On the Heights. (Bennett, Translator.) Knowledge is power. 2936 Bacon: Meditationes Sacræ. De Horesibus. Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. 2937 Title given by Lord Brougham to a Book published under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Knowledge is the material with which Genius builds her fabrics. The greater its abundance, the more power is required to dispose it into order and beauty, but the more vast and magnificent will be the structure. 2938 Bryant Prose Writings. Lectures on Poetry. Relation of Poetry to Time and Place. Whatever our intellectual calling, no kind of knowledge is antagonistic to it. All varieties of knowledge blend with, harmonize, enrich the one kind of knowledge to which we attach our reputation. 2939 Bulwer-Lytton: Caxtoniana. Essay X. Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it when young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. 2940 Chesterfield: Letters, Sentences, and Maxims. Dec. 11, 1747. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. Lord Chesterfield: Letters to His Son. Bath, 2941 Feb. 22, 1748. |