Greatest Extent Practicable

Famous quotes containing the words greatest, extent and/or practicable:

    The greatest love is a mother’s;
    Then comes a dog’s,
    Then comes a sweetheart’s.
    —(20th century)

    The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    These volumes contain not the highest, but a very practicable wisdom, which startles and provokes, rather than informs us. Carlyle does not oblige us to think; we have thought enough for him already, but he compels us to act.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)