Famous quotes containing the words david and/or pears:
“I shall not be forward to think him mistaken in his method who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The pears are not seen
As the observer wills.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)