Lowest Distance

Famous quotes containing the words lowest and/or distance:

“We select granite for the underpinning of our houses and barns; we build fences of stone; but we do not ourselves rest on an underpinning of granitic truth, the lowest primitive rock. Our sills are rotten.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)