Companions Martyrs

Famous quotes containing the words companions and/or martyrs:

“Dear fellow-artist, why so free
With every sort of company,
With every Jack and Jill?
Choose your companions from the best;
Who draws a bucket with the rest
Soon topples down the hill.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Would martyrs have sung in the flames for a mere inference, however inevitable it might be?”
—William James (1842–1910)