Highest

Famous quotes containing the word highest:

    You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel. The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one’s own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilised form of autobiography.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.
    Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)