Day Chief

Famous quotes containing the words day and/or chief:

“All day I’d looked in the face
What I had hoped ‘twould be
To write for my own race
And the reality;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The wisest conservatism is that of the Hindoos. “Immemorial custom is transcendental law,” says Menu. That is, it was the custom of the gods before men used it. The fault of our New England custom is that it is memorial. What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)