Christian Emperors

Famous quotes containing the words christian and/or emperors:

    “Archbishop—A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)