Famous quotes containing the words light and/or scattered:
“When goose down is sent a thousand miles, the gift may be light but the sentiment is weighty.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)