Sally/names

Famous quotes containing the words sally and/or names:

“It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“At present our only true names are nicknames.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)