Famous quotes containing the words high and/or altar:
“All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at first sight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)