David Devant & His Spirit Wife

Famous quotes containing the words david, spirit and/or wife:

“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I live for those who love me,
Whose hearts are kind and true;
For the Heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too;
For all human ties that bind me,
For the task by God assigned me,
For the bright hopes yet to find me,
And the good that I can do.”
—George Linnaeus Banks (1821–1881)

“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)