Famous quotes containing the words devout and/or catholic:
“And in a soft and fundamental hour
a sorcery devout and vertical
beguiled the world.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Carlyle is not a seer, but a brave looker-on and reviewer; not the most free and catholic observer of men and events, for they are likely to find him preoccupied, but unexpectedly free and catholic when they fall within the focus of his lens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)