Principal Term

Famous quotes containing the words principal and/or term:

“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)