Famous quotes containing the words port and/or number:
“In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)