Famous quotes containing the words illustrious and/or class:
“It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)
“There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at the root of the matter at once,for the root is faith,I am accustomed to answer such, that I can live on board nails. If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)