“Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1.3
“Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportion’d thought his act.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1.3
“Foul deeds will rise, though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1.2
“In 1993, in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the Supreme Court ruled that, under Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence (which covers both civil trials and criminal prosecutions in the federal courts), a ‘trial judge must ensure that any and all scientific testimony or evidence admitted is not only relevant, but reliable.’ The Court indicated that the subject of an expert’s testimony should be scientific knowledge, so that ‘evidentiary reliability will be based upon scientific validity.’ The Court also emphasized that, in considering the admissibility of evidence, a trial judge should focus ‘solely’ on the expert’s ‘principles and methodology,’ and ‘not on the conclusions that they generate.’ In sum, Daubert’s requirement that an expert’s testimony pertain to ‘scientific knowledge’ established a standard of ‘evidentiary reliability.’” – Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community, National Research Council, Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 5.1
“We that have good wits have much to answer for.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 5.1
“That woman that cannot make her fault her husband’s occasion, let her never nurse her child herself, for she will breed it like a fool.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 4.1
“Make the doors upon a woman’s wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and it will out at the keyhole; stop that, ’twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 4.1
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 4.1
“To have seen much, and to have nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 4.1
“There are two ways in which the identification of the law of nature with the rule of man’s unfallen, or his regenerate, condition may tend to radical conclusions. To associate the natural with the unfallen state is to approach the general type of thought now described as primitivistic. To associate it with a regenerate condition presents, on the other hand, some affinity with the type of thought known as perfectibilitarian. In the eighteenth century these two types were to furnish, separately and together, the dominant modes of radical thinking. Discontent with the existing social order issued in the cry of ‘back to nature,’ or in the cry of ‘onward to perfection.’ Then the happy discovery was made that the two things were really identical: in order to go onward to perfection one had only to go back to nature for one’s rule. But before this blessed state of confusion could be achieved dogma must have disappeared or have been interpreted so figuratively that nothing but the smudged outline of its pattern persisted. In some of the radicals of the Puritan revolution these processes are seen at work.” – A. S. P. Woodhouse, Puritanism & Liberty
“Scripture is the rule for the church; the law of nature, the only rule for the state. To attempt to introduce the Mosaic Law into the constitution of the state under the guise of natural law is sophistical. Nor are we left without strong indications of what the law of nature teaches in the civil sphere: it teaches that the people not only designate the persons of their governors, but bestow upon them all their power.” – A. S. P. Woodhouse, Puritanism & Liberty
“Omittance is not quittance.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.5
“All’s brave that youth mounts and folly drives.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.4
“Was is not is.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.4 (emphases in original)
“When a man’s verses cannot be understood, nor a man’s good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.3
“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.2
“I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.2
“It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.2
“I am a true labourer; I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness; glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.2
“Those things that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at the court.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.2
“He that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.2
“He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.2
“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.7
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude; thy tooth is not so keen.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.7
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. At first the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms; then the whining school-boy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school. And then the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation, even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice, in fair round belly with good capon lin’d, with eyes severe and beard of formal cut, full of wise saws and modern instances; and so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side; his youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.7
“He that a fool doth very wisely hit doth very foolishly, although he smart, not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, the wise man’s folly is anatomiz’d even by the squandering glances of the fool.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.7
“Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.7
“Where civil liberty is entire, it includes liberty of conscience; where liberty of conscience is entire it includes civil liberty.” – James Harrington, Political Aphorisms
“The fact that there is a Puritan doctrine of liberty, whatever its limitations, is immensely important. Repeatedly Puritanism brings the question of liberty up for discussion, and this is a major service. While operating within the prescribed bounds of ‘Christian’ liberty, Puritanism, further, does a great deal to foster the notion of individuality, and an individualistic outlook, with results partially, though not wholly, favourable to democracy.” – A. S. P. Woodhouse, Puritanism & Liberty