True Histories

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or histories:

    “Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    “The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, “the sweet seriousness of sixteen,” the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,—we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)