Famous quotes containing the words distinctions and/or honors:
“Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols—it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)