Famous quotes containing the words noble and/or sanctuary:
“It’s impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)