Famous quotes containing the words century and/or temple:
“Sublimity is the echo of great mind.”
—Longinus (3rd century A.D.)
“The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)