Famous quotes containing the words celestial and/or exalted:
“It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies.... Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)