Famous quotes containing the words step and/or higher:
“There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)
“But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)