Stevens/businesses

Famous quotes containing the words stevens and/or businesses:

    “After a lustre of the moon, we say
    We have not the need of any paradise,
    We have not the need of any seducing hymn.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)