Famous quotes containing the words noble and/or gases:
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”
—C.C. (Charles Caleb)
“The bird is not in its ounces and inches, but in its relations to Nature; and the skin or skeleton you show me, is no more a heron, than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)