Eldest Element Founded

Famous quotes containing the words eldest, element and/or founded:

    “Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises very well, considering we never controlled him much.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “Truly, though our element is time,
    We are not suited to the long perspectives
    Open at each instant of our lives.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscience is the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)