Famous quotes containing the words newton and/or bushel:
“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“For insolence, once blossoming, bears its fruit, a bushel of doom, from which it reaps a tear-filled harvest.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)