Pure State

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or state:

“Such pure and genuine and childlike love of Nature is hardly to be found in any poet.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)