1st Earl Howe

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or howe:

    Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
    With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
    As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free;
    —Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910)