Famous quotes containing the words jacob and/or van:
“I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)