Famous quotes containing the words learning and/or commons:
“Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; which would be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)