Famous quotes containing the words bell and/or atlantic:
“... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)