Famous quotes containing the words true and/or histories:
“Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)