John Dryden: By viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow; Thus fishes first to shipping

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, Makes mighty things from small beginn — John Dryden

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow; Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

John Dryden

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激水之疾，至於漂石者，勢也；鷙鳥之疾，至於毀折者，節也。 — Sun Tzu
Thus, brought before the tribunal of ethics, the cosmos stands condemned. The co — George C. Williams
Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit. — Nature never says one thing
This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole... — Marcus Aurelius
When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept — Leo Tolstoy
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the — Attributed to Brooke Westcott
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful — Daniel C. Dennett
Humor must not professedly teach, and it must not professedly preach, but it mus — Mark Twain
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we — John Lancaster Spalding
In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capita — Karl Marx