Greatest Number

Famous quotes containing the words greatest and/or number:

    “The greatest poverty is not to live
    In a physical world, to feel that one’s desire
    Is too difficult to tell from despair.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men, of men in distant countries, and in past times.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)