Famous quotes containing the words difference and/or principle:
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)