Famous quotes containing the words north, whitehall and/or township:
“The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)
“I say to myself that I mustnt let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, Im pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.”
—Richard Crossman (19071974)
“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)