Sparknotes The Minister's Black Veil Quotes & Sayings

You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,' said I. 'I will try on my side to be no less honest. I believe these deep duties may lie upon your lordship; I believe you may have laid them on your conscience when you took the oaths of the high office which you hold. But for me, who am just a plain man
or scarce a man yet
the plain duties must suffice. I can think but of two things, of a poor soul in the immediate and unjust danger of a shameful death, and of the cries and tears of his wife that still tingle in my head. I cannot see beyond, my lord. It's the way I am made. If the country has to fall, it has to fall. And I pray God, if this is wilful blindness, that He may enlighten me before too late. — Robert Louis Stevenson

As often as we do good, we sacrifice. — Benjamin Franklin

There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain. — Antonio Banderas

I have learned to see that whatever comes about is nothing to me if it lies beyond the sphere of choice. — Epictetus

If I am just as stupid when I am twenty as I was when I was two, if I am just as stupid when I am a hundred as I was when I was fifty, then I am not doing my job. I am occupying space and time to no purpose, and I might just as well have been a lump of rock. — Robert Silverberg

The story is told of yourself. — Horace

The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas." To that end, the Constitution protects more than just a man's freedom to say or write or publish what he wants. It secures as well the liberty of each man to decide for himself what he will read and to what he will listen. The Constitution guarantees, in short, a society of free choice. — Potter Stewart

Can you understand what it means for something to be incomplete?" my mother had once asked me. I understood, I understood. — Chaim Potok

Louisiana has the best food on the planet if you don't really ask too much about what you're eating. — Jeff Foxworthy