Famous quotes containing the words permissible and/or power:
“What is permissible is not always honorable.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“He utters substantial English thoughts in plainest English dialects.... Indeed, for fluency and skill in the use of the English tongue, he is a master unrivaled. His felicity and power of expression surpass even his special merits as historian and critic.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)