Famous quotes containing the word basis:
“The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797)
“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.”
—Flannery OConnor (19251964)
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