"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Sybil. Book i. Chap. v.

"Principle is ever my motto, not expediency."

Sybil. Book ii. Chap. ii.

"Mr. Kremlin was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."

Sybil. Book iv. Chap. v.

"Everything comes if a man will only wait."

Tancred. Book iv. Chap. viii. (1847.)

"That when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire."

Lothair. Chap. xxviii.

"You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art."

Lothair. Chap. xxxv.

"His Christianity was muscular."

Endymion. Chap. xiv.

"The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man."

Endymion. Chap. lii.

"The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right."

Endymion. Chap. lxx.

""As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell.""

Endymion. Chap. lxxxi.

"The sweet simplicity of the three per cents."

Endymion. Chap. xcvi.

"Mastering the lawless science of our law,-- That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances."

Aylmer's Field.

"O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying."

The Princess. Part iii. Line 360.

"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more."

The Princess. Part iv. Line 21.

"Barkis is willin'."

David Copperfield. Chap. v.

"The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in."

Garfield.

"A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions."

Garfield.

"Needle in a bottle of hay."

A Woman's a Weathercock. (Reprint, 1612, p. 20.)

"March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us."

March to the Battle-Field.

"Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace.""

Letter to W. H. Seward, March 3, 1861.

"His wife, with nine small children and one at the breast, following him to the stake."

Martyrdom of John Rogers. Burned at Smithfield, Feb. 14, 1554.

"Epimenides was sent by his father into the field to look for a sheep, turned out of the road at mid-day and lay down in a certain cave and fell asleep, and slept there fifty-seven years; and after that, when awake, he went on looking for the sheep, thinking that he had been taking a short nap."

Epimenides. ii.

"Not that the earth doth yield In hill or dale, in forest or in field, A rarer plant."

First Week, Third Day.

"As for man his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth."

The Bible, Old Testament. Psalm ciii. 15.

"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin."

The Bible, New Testament. Matthew vi. 28.

"We shall, therefore, assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system."

Statement of the equivalence principle in Yearbook of Radioactivity and Electronics (1907)

"What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field."

Letter to the Michelson Commemorative Meeting of the Cleveland Physics Society (1952), as quoted by R.S.Shankland, Am J Phys 32, 16 (1964), p35, republished in A P French, Special Relativity,

"During that year in Aarau the question came to me: If one runs after a light wave with [a velocity equal to the] light velocity, then one would encounter a time-independent wavefield. However, something like that does not seem to exist! This was the first juvenile thought experiment which has to do with the special theory of relativity. Invention is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure."

From his "Autobiographische Skizze" (18 April 1955), original German version here. Translation from Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais (1982), p. 131. Pais notes that when he said "during that ye

"It appears dubious whether a field theory can account for the atomistic structure of matter and radiation as well as of quantum phenomena."

(1955) as quoted in Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein (1980) Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Advanced Book Program.

"I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact."

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter III

"It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic."

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter VIII

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter X

"It may be said, therefore, that the military opinion of the world is opposed to those people who cry 'Democratize the army!' and it must be remembered that an army is not a field upon which persons with Utopian ideas may exercise their political theories, but a weapon for the defence of the State."

British Cavalry, The Anglo-Saxon Review, March 1901.

"I look forward to the universal establishment of minimum standards of life and labour, and their progressive elevation as the increasing energies of production may permit. I do not think that Liberalism in any circumstances can cut itself off from this fertile field of social effort, and I would recommend you not to be scared in discussing any of these proposals, just because some old woman comes along and tells you they are Socialistic."

The People's Rights [1909] (1970), p. 154

"Although trade is important, there are other and stronger bonds of Empire, and since the Conference of 1926 nothing but common interests and traditions have held the Empire together. But those are mighty ties, incomprehensible to Europeans, which have drawn millions of men from the far corners of the earth to the battlefields of France, and we must trust to them to continue to draw us together."

Speech in Toronto (16 August 1929), quoted in Martin Gilbert, The Churchill Documents, Volume 12: The Wilderness Years, 1929–1935 (1981; 2012), p. 51

"We must recognise that we have a great treasure to guard; that the inheritance in our possession represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?"

Speech at Théâtre des Ambassadeurs, Paris, 24 September 1936, "Thank God For the French Army"

"There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them."

Noted as a habitual remark of Churchill in Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke’s diary entry for 1 April 1945 (“As Churchill says...”), quoted in Arthur Bryant, Triumph in the West (1959), p. 339

"We in this small Island have to make a supreme effort to maintain our place and status, the place and status to which our undying genius entitles us."

Speech at Harrow School, 7 November 1952. Quoted in Field Marshal Lord Michael Carver: "Tightrope Walking" (1992), pg 34

"... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing."

Address to the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society (22 February 1842). Frequently misquoted as "It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing."

"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."

Address to the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society (22 February 1842), quoted at greater length in John Carroll Power (1889) Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Public Services, Death and Funeral Cortege

"Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest."

Speech at Springfield, Illinois (26 June 1857)

"They have seen in his round, jolly fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships and cabinet-appointments, charge-ships and foreign missions, bursting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. Nobody has ever expected me to be president. In my poor, lean lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting."

Speech in Springfield, Illinois (17 July 1858), referring to Stephen Douglas. Quoted in Charles Sumner (1861), The Promises of the Declaration of Independence

"All I ask for the negro is that if you not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little let him enjoy."

Speech in Springfield, Illinois (17 July 1858)

"I thank you, in common with all others, who have thought fit, by their votes, to indorse the Republican cause. I rejoice with you in the success which has, so far, attended that cause. Yet in all our rejoicing let us neither express, nor cherish, any harsh feeling towards any citizen who, by his vote, has differed with us. Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling."

Remarks at Springfield, Illinois (20 November 1860); published in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953) by Roy P. Basler, vol. 4, p. 142

"It is no fault in others that the Methodist Church sends more soldiers to the field, more nurses to the hospital, and more prayers to Heaven than any. God bless the Methodist Church — bless all the churches — and blessed be to God, who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches."

To the 1864 general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as quoted in Abraham Lincoln : A History Vol. 6 (1890) by John George Nicolay and John Hay, Ch. 15, p. 324