Jeremy Bentham

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. It keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial. Under the auspices of publicity, the cause in the court of law, and the appeal to the court of public opinion, are going on at the same time... It is through publicity alone that justice becomes the mother of security.

Cause | Justice | Law | Mother | Opinion | Public | Security | Soul | Time |

Japanese Proverbs

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.

John Bright

Ignorance is the mother of prejudice.

Ignorance | Mother | Prejudice |

John Adams

An ounce of mother wit is worth a pound of clergy.

Mother | Wit | Worth |

Joseph Addison

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Good | Humanity | Life | Life | Trifles |

Joseph Addison

The soul, secured in her existence, smiles at the drawn dagger and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; but thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, unhurt amidst the war of elements, the wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Age | Existence | Nature | Soul | War | Youth |

Joseph Chilton Pearce, aka Joe

When brain and heart frequencies entrain, they enter a synchronous, resonant, or coherent wave pattern. Though rare in adults, such entrainment is critical to full development of our human nature… The same entrainment of heart frequencies occurs between mother and infant during breast-feeding and other close body contact.

Body | Heart | Human nature | Mother | Nature |

Maltbie Babcock, fully Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father’s house.

Father | Mother | Think |

Octavio Paz, born Octavio Paz Lozano

Death is the mother of forms.

Death | Mother |

Plato NULL

The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Invention | Mother | Necessity |

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Necessity! thou mother of the world.

Mother | Necessity | World |

Ptah-hotep, aka Ptahhotpe or Ptah-Hotep NULL

Beware of covetousness, which is a malady, diseaseful, incurable. Intimacy with it is impossible, it makes the sweet friend bitter, it alienates the trusted one from his master, it makes father and mother mad… it divorces a man’s wife.

Father | Friend | Man | Mother | Wife |

Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL

Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece: "For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother."

Father | Means | Mother | Power | Rest | Will |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches and, to make knowledge valuable you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy things are sweet-tempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.

Cheerfulness | Genius | Joy | Knowledge | Nothing | Spirit | Strength | Will | Wisdom |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There never was child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Mother | Child |

Robert Burton

Employment, which Galen calls "Nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

Indolence | Mother | Nature | Happiness |

Saint Benedict of Nursia NULL

Discretion is the mother of virtue.

Discretion | Mother | Virtue | Virtue |

Robert Orben

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Credit | Father | Life | Life | Mother |