Solemn High Mass

Famous quotes containing the words solemn, high and/or mass:

    “One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.”
    —Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)

    “There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)