Impression/law

Famous quotes containing the words impression and/or law:

“It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a lustre obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment—but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)