Reaching Number

Famous quotes containing the words reaching and/or number:

    And the ambitious vine
    Crowns with his purple mass
    The cedar reaching high
    To kiss the sky,
    The cypress, pine,
    And useful sassafras.
    Michael Drayton (1563–1631)

    In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)