Sed/history

Famous quotes containing the words sed and/or history:

    Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,
    The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates
    Of snails, musician of pears, principium
    And lex. Sed quæritur: is this same wig
    Of things, this nincompated pedagogue,
    Preceptor to the sea?
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
    Henry James (1843–1916)