Famous quotes containing the words desert and/or volumes:
“Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.”
—Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)
“These volumes contain not the highest, but a very practicable wisdom, which startles and provokes, rather than informs us. Carlyle does not oblige us to think; we have thought enough for him already, but he compels us to act.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)