Law

Famous quotes containing the word law:

    “But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man’s will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall no longer be deterred by such abstractions as time and space, height and depth, weight and hardness, but shall indeed be the lord of creation.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.”
    —Russell Baker (b. 1925)