01c. 1823 ADLet the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,—a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.Lord Brougham / quote ↗
02c. 1823 ADIn my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, kings, lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.Lord Brougham / quote ↗
05UndatedIt was the boast of Augustus, that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be our Sovereign’s boast when he shall have it to say that he found law dear, and left it cheap; found it a sealed book—left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich—left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression—left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence!Lord Brougham / quote ↗
Edsverb reading card◎MeditationsMarcus AureliusFree edition · US public domainMeric Casaubon translation (1634), later edited editionRelated reading on mind; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading cardΠThe RepublicPlatoFree edition · US public domainBenjamin Jowett translationRelated reading on knowledge; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading card☼The ProphetKahlil GibranFree edition · US public domain1923 English editionRelated reading on life; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗