To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.Quotation recorded by James Wood
Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 25142. Printed attribution: Bible. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; / The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, / Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.A broken leg is not healed by a silk stocking.