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Equality: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

He directed the stone over his grave to be thus inscribed : Hie jacet hujus Sententiæ primus Author: Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies. Nomen alias quære. Here lies the first author of this sentence; "The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church." Inquire his name elsewhere.— IZAAK WALTON — Life of Wotton.

He first deceas'd; she for a little tri'd To live without him, lik'd it not, and died.— SIR HENRY WOTTON- — Upon the Death

of Sir Albertus Morton's Wife. Si monumentum requiris circumspice. (If you would see his monument look around.) Inscription on the tomb of Sir Christopher Wren in St. Paul's, London.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.— FROUDE — Short Studies on Great

Subjects. Party Politics. The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air-it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.— HENRY GEORGE — Progress and Poverty. Bk. VII. Ch. I.

Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves: but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Boswell's Life of

Johnson, 1763. For some must follow, and some command Though all are made of clay!— LONGFELLOW — Keramos. L. 6.

Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. VIII. L. 383.

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 47.

Heralds, from off our towers we might behold, From first to last, the onset and retire Of both your armies; whose equality By our best eyes cannot be censured : Blood hath bought blood and blows have answer'd blows; Strength match'd with strength, and power confronted power: Both are alike; and both alike we like.— Shakespeare — King John. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 325.

Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.— Shakespeare — Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 246.

She in beauty, education, blood, Holds hand with any princess of the world.— Shakespeare — King John. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 493.

The trickling rain doth fall Upon us one and all; The south-wind kisses The saucy milkmaid's cheek, The nun's, demure and meek, Nor any misses.— E. C. STEDMAN — A Madrigal. St. 3.

Equality is the life of conversation; and he is as much out who assumes to himself any part above another, as he who considers himself below the rest of the society.— STEELE — Tatler. No. 225.

The tall, the wise, the reverend head, Must be as low as ours.— WATTS — Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Bk. II. Hymn 63.

Par in parem imperium non habet. An equal has no power over an equal. Law Maxim. Quod ad jus naturale attinet, omnes homines æquales sunt. All men are equal before the natural law. Law Maxim. Et sceleratis sol oritur. The sun shines even on the wicked.— SENECA — De Beneficiis. III. 25.

Siempre acostumbra hacer el vulgo necio. De le bueno y lo malo igual aprecio. The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad. C.— YRIARTE — Fables. XXVIII.