Lady Worthies

Famous quotes containing the words lady and/or worthies:

    “The Lady Mary Villiers lies
    Under this stone; with weeping eyes
    The parents that first gave her birth,
    And their sad friends, laid her in earth.”
    —Thomas Carew (1589–1639)

    “If, then, we would indeed restore mankind ... let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our own brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)