Famous quotes containing the words ernest, vincent, wright and/or wotton:
“Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy,”
—Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883–1917)
“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained—a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.”
—Chauncey Wright (1830–1875)
“You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon doth rise?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)