Famous quotes containing the words equal and/or number:
“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)