Railways Mark

Famous quotes containing the words railways and/or mark:

    There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
    —H.G. (Herbert George)

    There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail,
    Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)