Modern Trivial

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or trivial:

“A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)