Incense/history

Famous quotes containing the words incense and/or history:

    “You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    “Indeed, the Englishman’s history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)