Famous quotes containing the words franklin, square and/or union:
“Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.”
—Benjamin Franklin (17061790)
“This house was designed and constructed with the freedom of stroke of a foresters axe, without other compass and square than Nature uses.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The old ideals are dead as nailsnothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a womansort of ultimate marriageand there isnt anything else.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)