Million Volumes

Famous quotes containing the words million and/or volumes:

    “I have at last, after several months’ experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert—a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,—a certain robust and radiant physical health; or—shall I say?—great volumes of animal heat.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)