Famous quotes containing the words mold and/or growth:
“O, what a noble mind is here oerthrown!
The courtiers, soldiers, scholars,eye, tongue, sword,
Th expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mold of form,
Th observed of all observers, quite, quite down!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Hence, the less government we have, the better,the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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