Famous quotes containing the words maintain and/or stability:
“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)
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)