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)

    “So that if you would form a just judgment of what is of infinite importance to you not to be misled in,—namely, in what degree of real merit you stand ... call in religion and morality.—Look,—What is written in the law of God?—How readest thou?—Consult calm reason and the unchangeable obligations of justice and truth;Mwhat say they?”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)