Famous quotes containing the words proof and/or mass:
“a meek humble Man of modest sense,
Who preaching peace does practice continence;
Whose pious life’s a proof he does believe,
Mysterious truths, which no Man can conceive.”
—John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)