Famous quotes containing the words east, louis and/or sons:
“From the east to western Inde,
No jewel is like Rosalind.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still its good fun.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894)
“Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, sons of the same soil, at intervals of three centuries were, in a political sense, the levers of Archimedes. Each in turn was an embodied idea finding its fulcrum in the interests of man.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)