Distinct Letters

Famous quotes containing the words distinct and/or letters:

“To offend and judge are distinct offices,
And of opposed natures.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)