Chance Operations

Famous quotes containing the words chance and/or operations:

“Most men have like plants hidden properties, which chance discloses.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)