Famous quotes containing the words difference and/or principle:
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning- bug and the lightning.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)