Sample Return Attempt

Famous quotes containing the words sample, return and/or attempt:

“The present war having so long cut off all communication with Great-Britain, we are not able to make a fair estimate of the state of science in that country. The spirit in which she wages war is the only sample before our eyes, and that does not seem the legitimate offspring either of science or of civilization.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“The soul establishes itself.
But how far can it swim out through the eyes
And still return safely to its nest?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)