Quotes about Austere

Would that we might spare the reader what is to come and say to him in so many words, Orlando died and was buried. But here, alas, Truth, Candour, and Honesty, the austere Gods, who keep watch and ward by the inkpot of the biographer, cry No!

The laws of friendship are great, austere, and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.