Fort Repose

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or repose:

    I never drink—wine.
    —Garrett Fort (1900–1945)

    I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)