Famous quotes containing the words offices and/or commonwealth:
“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)
“The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)