Scarlet Letter

Famous quotes containing the words scarlet and/or letter:

“If a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green, than he that from his childhood never tasted an oyster, or a pineapple, has of those particular relishes.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)

“A letter from home is worth ten thousand ounces of gold.”
—Chinese proverb.