Fine Particles

Famous quotes containing the words fine and/or particles:

    “Fruits are acceptable gifts, because they are the flower of commodities, and admit of fantastic values being attached to them. If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him, and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “O my countrymen!—be nice;Mbe cautious of your language;—and never, O! never let it be forgotten upon what small particles your eloquence and your fame depend.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)