Infinite Formal Sum

Famous quotes containing the words infinite, formal and/or sum:

    “The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily.
    Let not our looks put on our purposes,
    But bear it as our Roman actors do,
    With untired spirits and formal constancy.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Nor sequent centuries could hit
    Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE’s wit.
    The men who lived with him became
    Poets, for the air was fame.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)