Famous quotes containing the words talents and/or universe:
“Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love’s gentle sport;
By his own talents he worked his undoing.
Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved,
Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)