Famous quotes containing the words captain and/or meynell:
“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)
“Let a man turn to his own childhood—no further—if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.”
—Alice Meynell (1847–1922)