Van Wert High

Famous quotes containing the words van, wert and/or high:

    “A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.”
    —Carl Van Doren (1885–1950)

    “Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
    This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
    Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
    Then Beauty is its own excuse for being:
    Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
    I never thought to ask, I never knew:
    But, in my simple ignorance, suppose
    The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Optimism is the content of small men in high places.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)