Pure State

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or state:

“Such pure and genuine and childlike love of Nature is hardly to be found in any poet.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)