Famous quotes containing the words latin, square and/or reduced:
“Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)
“Mark you the floore? that square & speckled stone,
Which looks so firm and strong,
Is Patience:”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)