Baron Hope of Thornes

Famous quotes containing the words baron and/or hope:

    I loathe that I did love,
    In youth that I thought sweet;
    Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

    Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)