Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth, bank and/or series:
“This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own....”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; & so we float on & on, hoping to come to a landing-place at last—but swoop! we launch into the great sea! Yet the geographers say, even then we must not despair, because across the great sea, however desolate & vacant it may look, lie all Persia & the delicious lands roundabout Damascus.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The theory of truth is a series of truisms.”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)