Famous quotes containing the words south, whitehall and/or township:
“The Great South Beach of Long Island,... though wild and desolate, as it wants the bold bank,... possesses but half the grandeur of Cape Cod in my eyes, nor is the imagination contented with its southern aspect.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I say to myself that I mustnt let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, Im pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.”
—Richard Crossman (19071974)
“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)