Incense/history

Famous quotes containing the words incense and/or history:

    “You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    “Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)