Pledge/promises

Famous quotes containing the words pledge and/or promises:

“We should omit a main attraction in these books, if we said nothing of their humor. Of this indispensable pledge of sanity, without some leaven of which the abstruse thinker may justly be suspected of mysticism, fanaticism, or insanity, there is a superabundance in Carlyle.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“One promises much, to avoid giving little.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)