Famous quotes containing the words newton, upper and/or falls:
“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)
“The first to strike will gain the upper hand.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Forgive the song that falls so low,
beneath the gratitude I owe.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)