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)
“Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been.”
—Josiah Royce (1855–1916)