Famous quotes containing the words empty and/or phenomena:
“Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.
Are empty trunks o’erflourished by the devil.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“All the phenomena which surround him are simple and grand, and there is something impressive, even majestic, in the very motion he causes, which will naturally be communicated to his own character, and he feels the slow, irresistible movement under him with pride, as if it were his own energy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)