Mould

Famous quotes containing the word mould:

“The civilized nations—Greece, Rome, England—have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as the soil is not exhausted. Alas for human culture! little is to be expected of a nation, when the vegetable mould is exhausted, and it is compelled to make manure of the bones of its fathers. There the poet sustains himself merely by his own superfluous fat, and the philosopher comes down on his marrow-bones.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
Th’observed of all observers.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I—this thought which is called I—is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)