It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye t...o some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerab...le presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The English were very backward to explore and settle the continent which they had stumbled upon. The French preceded them both in ...their attempts to colonize the continent of North America ... and in their first permanent settlement ... And the right of possession, naturally enough, was the one which England mainly respected and recognized in the case of Spain, of Portugal, and also of France, from the time of Henry VII.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today brings the sad, glad tidings that Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has passed from that darkness which had fallen upon her path through ...this life, out into the light and joy of that life toward which her vision has so long been strained. Modern education is lethal to children.... We stuff them with mathematics, we pummel them with science, and we use them up before their time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurat...e because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who, from the beginning of his life, has been bathed at length in the soft atmosphere of a woman, in the smell of her hand...s, of her bosom, of her knees, of her hair, of her supple and floating clothes, ... has contracted from this contact a tender skin and a distinct accent, a kind of androgyny without which the harshest and most masculine genius remains, as far as perfection in art is concerned, an incomplete being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »