Divine Power

Famous quotes containing the words divine and/or power:

“The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)