Greater Barons

Famous quotes containing the words greater and/or barons:

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“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)