Famous quotes containing the words pass and/or light:
“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which it is destined to receive thence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)