Small Utilities

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or utilities:

“And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

“Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all of the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music heard out of a work-house.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)