Profitable

Famous quotes containing the word profitable:

“On the most profitable lie, the course of events presently lays a destructive tax; whilst frankness invites frankness, puts the parties on a convenient footing, and makes their business a friendship.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“To me no profitable speech sounds ill.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“An empty book is like an infant’s soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)