Unknown Origin

Famous quotes containing the words unknown and/or origin:

    “All nature is but art unknown to thee;
    All chance, direction which thou canst not see;
    All discord, harmony not understood;
    All partial evil, universal good;
    And, spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite,
    One truth is clear, “Whatever IS, is RIGHT.””
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “High treason, when it is resistance to tyranny here below, has its origin in, and is first committed by, the power that makes and forever re-creates man.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)