From The Liberty to Trade as Buttressed by National Law (1909) by George H. Earle, Jr.
“Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.”
“Fifteen years can be a long or a short time, depending upon whether one is immortal or not.”
Source: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Thirteenth Fey (p. 39)
Voltaire (1916)
Context: Voltaire was not the first or last man to convert a prison into a hall of fame. A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.
It was while in prison that he changed his name from the one his father gave him — Arouet — to the one he has made famous throughout all time — Voltaire. He said, "I was very unlucky under my first name. I want to see if this one will succeed any better."
"The Ethics of Human Beings Toward Non-human Beings", pp. 278
The Universal Kinship (1906), The Ethical Kinship
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers (1932)
Introductory p.4
A Budget of Paradoxes (1872)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Context: Whatever is supreme in a state, ought to have, as much as possible, its judicial authority so constituted as not only not to depend upon it, but in some sort to balance it. It ought to give a security to its justice against its power. It ought to make its judicature, as it were, something exterior to the state.
“The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.”
Source: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter VIII, Growth Models, p. 140
