Person Singular

Famous quotes containing the words person and/or singular:

    “There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “Is it not singular that, while the religious world is gradually picking to pieces its old testaments, here are some coming slowly after, on the seashore, picking up the durable relics of perhaps older books, and putting them together again?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)