Smallest Number

Famous quotes containing the words smallest and/or number:

    The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    If matrimony be really beneficial to society, the custom that ... married women alone are allowed any claim to place, is as useful a piece of policy as ever was invented.... The ridicule fixed on the appellation of old maid hath, I doubt not, frightened a very large number into the bonds of wedlock.
    Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)