System Reply

Famous quotes containing the words system and/or reply:

    “We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?”
    —Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)

    “So, having no reply to give
    To what the old man said,
    I cried, ‘Come, tell me how you live!’
    And thumped him on the head.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)