Famous quotes containing the words righteous and/or babe:
“I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)