jurisprudence

Isaac Newton(Mathematician) In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series. The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God. We ..

Blaise Pascal(Philosopher) You always admire what you really don't understand. Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose not..

Buddha(Leader) Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle w..

Alexander the Great(Leader) I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained b..

Benjamin Franklin(Politician) Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Well done..

Alexander Pope(Poet) To err is human; to forgive, divine. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. For Forms of Government let fo..

Alexander Graham Bell(Inventor) Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is clo..

Alexander Hamilton(Politician) There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. A promise must never be broken. The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes..

Alfred Lord Tennyson(Poet) 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power. My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. Hope smiles from the threshold..

Antoine de Saint-Exupery(Writer) It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect..