Closest Capital

Famous quotes containing the words closest and/or capital:

    “The universe is not rough-hewn, but perfect in its details. Nature will bear the closest inspection; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. She has no interstices; every part is full of life.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)