Famous quotes containing the words world and/or title:
“If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aimno trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.”
—Beatrice Potter Webb (18581943)
“A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earned in the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)