Highest

Famous quotes containing the word highest:

“There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings of the Websters, Sumners and Everetts seem gaudy and silly. It is eloquence brought to a pellucid and almost gem-like perfection—the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)