Greater Barons

Famous quotes containing the words greater and/or barons:

“There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“We live by our imaginations, by our admirations, by our sentiments. The child walks amid heaps of illusions, which he does not like to have disturbed. The boy, how sweet to him his fancy! how dear the story of barons and battles! What a hero he is, whilst he feeds on his heroes! What a debt is his to imaginative books!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)