Famous quotes containing the words order and/or modes:
“You cannot have one well-bred man without a whole society of such. They keep each other up to any high point. Especially women;Mit requires a great many cultivated women,saloons of bright, elegant, reading women, accustomed to ease and refinement, to spectacles, pictures, sculpture, poetry, and to elegant society, in order that you have one Madame de StaĆ«l.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“my brain
Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
Of unknown modes of being; oer my thoughts
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion.”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
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