Famous quotes containing the words ransom and/or note:
“But this was the old trees late branch wrenched away,
Grieving the sapless limbs, the shorn and shaken.”
—John Crowe Ransom (18881974)
“In our Mechanics Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenters planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)