Classic Race

Famous quotes containing the words classic and/or race:

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

“The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)