Voltaire/works/historical

Famous quotes containing the words works and/or historical:

“The appetite of workers works for them; their hunger urges them on.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 16:26.

“It is hard to believe that England is so near as from your letters it appears; and that this identical piece of paper has lately come all the way from there hither, begrimed with the English dust which made you hesitate to use it; from England, which is only historical fairyland to me, to America, which I have put my spade into, and about which there is no doubt.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)