Foreign Proper Names

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, proper and/or names:

“For my name and memory I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

“The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“At present our only true names are nicknames.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)