Famous quotes containing the words smaller and/or works:
“A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)
“Piety practised in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendour of beneficence.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)