Humane Letters Degree

Famous quotes containing the words humane, letters and/or degree:

    “If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would
    teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict
    themselves to sack.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls.
    For, thus friends absent speak.”
    —John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

    “Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)