Famous quotes containing the words wheat and/or species:
“The sower scatters broad his seed,
The wheat thou strew’st be souls.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does “fame” become, especially of the literary sort. This species of “fame” a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)