Wards Won

Famous quotes containing the words wards and/or won:

    Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
    Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)