No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
Grover Cleveland

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
John Ruskin

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
John Ruskin

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John Ruskin

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.
Spike Lee

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
William Ralph Inge

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
Black Elk

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.
Black Elk

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
Black Elk

It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.
Ray Stannard Baker

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
Ken Kesey

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
Elie Wiesel

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
Samuel Smiles

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
Charles de Montesquieu

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
John Milton

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
Patrick Henry

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Patrick Henry

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
Robert Baden-Powell

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
Mark Rothko