Expedient Means

Famous quotes containing the words expedient and/or means:

“It is expedient there should be gods, and as it is expedient,
let us deem that gods exist.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts—not to give it joy, but to give it a grand and somewhat gaudy sense of virtue. The essay is a weapon against the degenerate tendencies of the age. The novel, properly conceived, is a means of uplifting the spirit; its aim is to inspire, not merely to satisfy the low curiosity of man in man.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)