Famous quotes containing the words greatest number, greatest and/or number:
“The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that’s the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)