Bears Generally

Famous quotes containing the words bears and/or generally:

    “Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.”
    —HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained.”
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)