Uncommon

Famous quotes containing the word uncommon:

“To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

“A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

“Here commences what was called, twenty years ago, the best timber land in the State. This very spot was described as “covered with the greatest abundance of pine,” but now this appeared to me, comparatively, an uncommon tree there,—and yet you did not see where any more could have stood, amid the dense growth of cedar, fir, etc.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)