Famous quotes containing the words subject, matter and/or domain:
“The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You are the harvest and not the reaper
And of your domain another is the keeper.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)