Thomas Aquinas

Not by combining together, to protect injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved,--but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God!

It was the swing of the pendulum, Ruth, the eternal law which mocks our craving for content.

Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at itself and dies with the doer of it; but Good, never.

"As Heaven and Earth are fairer far Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs; And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth, In form and shape compact and beautiful; So, on our heels a fresh perfection treads; A power, more strong in beauty, born of us, And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness: for, 'tis the eternal law, That first in beauty shall be first in might."

She justifies her action, asserting that she was bound to obey the eternal laws of right and wrong in spite of any human ordinance.

I am afraid you find it quite impossible to keep her up at heel, or to mold her personal appearance into harmony with the eternal laws of symmetry and order.

And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind

There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.

The selfish misconception that induces you to transform into eternal laws of nature and of reason, the social forms springing from your present mode of production and form of property-historical relations that rise and disappear in the progress of production -- this misconception you share with every ruling class that has preceded you.

"Thinkest thou to defeat the eternal laws of life and death?

A fine residence had been taken for them on the Corso, and there they took up their abode, in a city where everything seemed to be trying to stand still for ever on the ruins of something else--except the water, which, following eternal laws, tumbled and rolled from its glorious multitude of fountains.