Famous quotes containing the words mercy and/or west:
“Pity would be no more,
If we did not make somebody poor;
And mercy no more could be,
If all were as happy as we;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)