Enterprise Incident

Famous quotes containing the words enterprise and/or incident:

“What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I teazed him with fanciful apprehensions of unhappiness. A moth having fluttered round the candle, and burnt itself, he laid hold of this little incident to admonish me; saying, with a sly look, and in a solemn but quiet tone, “That creature was its own tormentor, and I believe its name was BOSWELL.””
—James Boswell (1740–1795)