Stern Necessity Quotes
- Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most. — Victor Hugo
- As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not… — William Howard Taft
- Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept… — Albert Schweitzer
- By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson