Solemn High Mass

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

    “See, Winter comes, to rule the varied year,
    Sullen, and sad, with all his rising train;
    Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme,
    These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought,
    And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms!
    Congenial horrors, hail!”
    —James Thomson (1700–1748)

    “One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)