Famous quotes containing the words superficial and/or veins:
“The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger;
that, that is freedomthat it is which makes
the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glow
Aye, that is freedom,that is pleasurelife!”
—Marie Lovell (18031877)