Famous quotes containing the words remote and/or host:
“Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859)
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