Famous quotes containing the words important and/or offices:
“In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, ‘tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)