Famous quotes containing the words smallest and/or number:
“If the subject’s easy we may all be wise;
What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)