English Period

Famous quotes containing the words english and/or period:

“It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.”
—18th-century English proverb.

“His singing carried me back to the period of the discovery of America ... when Europeans first encountered the simple faith of the Indian. There was, indeed, a beautiful simplicity about it; nothing of the dark and savage, only the mild and infantile. The sentiments of humility and reverence chiefly were expressed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)