Famous quotes containing the words man and/or clanton:
“The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Southern women are ... all at heart abolitionists.”
—Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, U.S. diarist. As quoted in Divided Houses, ch. 1, by Leeann Whites (1992)