Smith/occupations

Famous quotes containing the words smith and/or occupations:

“He sowed our spawn in the world’s dim dawn,
And I know that it shall not die;”
—Langdon Smith (1858–1908)

“No body can conceive that nature ever intended to throw away a Newton upon the occupations of a crown. It would have been a prodigality for which even the conduct of providence might have been arraigned, had he been by birth annexed to what was so far below him.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)