Famous quotes containing the words treasure and/or ships:
“A self-denial, no less austere than the saint’s, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)