Famous quotes containing the words high and/or purity:
“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)