Famous quotes containing the words root, glass and/or company:
“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Vast chain of Being, which from God began,
Natures aethereal, human, angel, man,
Beast, bird, fish, insect! what no eye can see,
No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee,
From thee to Nothing!”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fallthe company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (18391894)