Famous quotes containing the words highest and/or number:
“The highest compact we can make with our fellow is—”Let there be truth between us two forevermore.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)