Highest

Famous quotes containing the word highest:

“Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)

“The highest good. [summum bonum.]”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

“I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)