Highest

Famous quotes containing the word highest:

    “It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.... I would call your attention to the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
    “The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
    “That was the curious incident.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel. The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)