The public highways ought not to be occupied by people demonstrating that motion is impossible. Carlyle.
The public is a personality that knows everything and can do nothing. (?)
The public is the majority of a society. Johnson. 10
The public sense is in advance of private practice. Chapin.
The public? The public is just a great baby. Dr. Chalmers.
The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to over-reaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Horace Mann.
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. Voltaire.
The punishment which the wise suffer, who 15 refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. Emerson.
The pure in heart shall see God. Jesus.
The purer the golden vessel the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of women is sooner lost than that of men. Jean Paul.