Famous quotes containing the words maintain and/or stability:
“Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)