Famous quotes containing the words french and/or open:
“The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... the door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)