For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the federal legislature will be likely to attach themselves too much to local objects.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

To be an atheist is a matter not of moral choice but of human obligation

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.

Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.