Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
No man speaketh or should speak of his prince that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart
I was summoned by my Country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage clear thinking honesty fairness and above all love of the truth.
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons to books to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!
He who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey is a man of vigor: and he who mildly wise without wounding convinces him of his error commands our veneration.
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
Mix a little mystery with everything for mystery arouses veneration.
Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.
What is deeper than respect and love? That's what we felt: veneration.
No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
Princes are like heavenly bodies which cause good or evil times and which have much veneration but no rest.
One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.
It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
Each superfluous line each wrongly placed line any color placed without veneration or care can spoil everything that is the spiritual.
But he has gone A nation's memory and veneration Among the radiant ever venturing on Somewhere with morning as such spirits will.
My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.
We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.
Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.
I fear that with our current veneration for the natural and the real we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism and have landed in the region of the waxworks.
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart and most highly honorable to the human character are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority because it procures veneration and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world so much reputation is in reality so much power.