Latin/grammar

Famous quotes containing the words latin and/or grammar:

    “Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.”
    —William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)

    “Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)