Subject

Famous quotes containing the word subject:

“Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,—a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,—to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“He was all the way subject to taciturn fits, but they were harmless ones.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)