Altars Quote by Charles Lamb

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

— Victor Hugo

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

— William Wilberforce

There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but,…

— Owen Feltham

The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the…

— Michel de Montaigne

“One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We…

— Okakura Kakuzo

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

— Brigham Young

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a…

— Charles Tennyson Turner

“When innocent and virtuous men liked to have gods as witnesses of their actions, they lived with them in the same huts. But having…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and…

— Wilfred Owen

How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To-day the majority of the great men who have swayed men's minds no longer have altars, but they have statues, or their portraits are…

— Gustave Le Bon