Famous quotes containing the words flint and/or circles:
“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (18211881)
“The [Loyal] legion has taken the place of the clubthe famous Cincinnati Literary Clubin my affections.... The military circles are interested in the same things with myself, and so we endure, if not enjoy, each other.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)