Famous quotes containing the words warner and/or independent:
“Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.”
—Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900)
“It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man’s busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)