Single Grain

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or grain:

“From a single crime know the nation.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70–19 B.C.)

“A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)