Famous quotes containing the words key, number and/or search:
“The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages isImbecility: imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments: victims of gravity, customs and fear. This gives force to the strong,that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“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 (18031882)
“Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
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