Famous quotes containing the words midnight and/or man:
“I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship, or the sale of goods through pretending that they sell, or power through making believe you are powerful, or through a packed jury or caucus, bribery and repeating votes, or wealth by fraud.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand workit is an indication on Natures part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (182595)
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