Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.
The Golden Rule works like gravitation.
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.
Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one
All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men. -In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science. -It was that led Newton to the invention of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of modern chemistry.
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.
On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.
I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me.
