Famous quotes containing the words universal and/or deluge:
“Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,—shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter accept as special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)