Discovery

Famous quotes containing the word discovery:

“The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)

“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)