Van Rensselaer Hall

Famous quotes containing the words van, rensselaer and/or hall:

    “A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.”
    —Carl Van Doren (1885–1950)

    “Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on our brushes and on the world of beauty around us.”
    —Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851–1934)

    “While there we heard the Indian fire his gun twice.... This sudden, loud, crashing noise in the still aisles of the forest, affected me like an insult to nature, or ill manners at any rate, as if you were to fire a gun in a hall or temple.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)