Apothecary/history

Famous quotes containing the words apothecary and/or history:

“As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn’t let it go for less than half-a-crown.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
—William James (1842–1910)