Fleet Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words fleet and/or numbers:

“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made—no matter how indirectly—to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)