Ancient Temple

Famous quotes containing the words ancient and/or temple:

    “I am ... willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them—the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.”
    —Thomas Merton (1915–1968)

    “[T]he temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)