Famous quotes containing the words smallest and/or number:
“Only the family, societys smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be strangers in a strange land, who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.”
—Salvador Minuchin (20th century)
“Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)