The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. – John Paul Stevens
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. – Charles Baudelaire
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
