Famous quotes containing the words world and/or leading:
“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, Tis all barrenand so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday. Things must not be done in him which are venial in the week-day classes. He is paid for this business of leading a stricter life than other people. It is his raison dĂȘtre.... This is why the clergyman is so often called a vicarMhe being the person whose vicarious goodness is to stand for that of those entrusted to his charge.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)