Famous quotes containing the words caries and/or affecting:
“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,—equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so. And so much the more, as they are not intended for consolation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)