Lye/safety/protection

Famous quotes containing the words lye, safety and/or protection:

“We all cry out that the world is corrupt,—and I fear too justly,—but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that it is our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“There is always safety in valor.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)