Famous quotes containing the words noble and/or gases:
“In the untimely loss of your noble son, our affliction here, is scarcely less than your own.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“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 (18031882)