"Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical."

-- Oliver Ellsworth

#Men Quotes #Law Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.”
“She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.”
“We are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth or status or power or fame, but rather how well we have Loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.”
“For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.”
“I sometimes forget a face, but I never forget a back.”
“I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.”
“People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.”
“You can only give things up once they start to let you down.”

Source : Edward St Aubyn (2014). “The Patrick Melrose Novels: Picador Classic”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

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