Famous quotes containing the words dark and/or lords:
“A Scholar is a candle which the love & desire of men will light. Let it not lie in a dark box.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; which would be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)