Famous quotes containing the words francis, national and/or forest:
“I fear no foe with Thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weights, and tears no bitterness;”
—Henry Francis Lyte (1793–1847)
“A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“It is as when a migrating army of mice girdles a forest of pines. The chopper fells trees from the same motive that the mouse gnaws them,—to get his living. You tell me that he has a more interesting family than the mouse. That is as it happens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)