Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton

Famous quotes containing the words ernest, vincent, wright and/or wotton:

    What have I done for you,
    England, my England?
    What is there I would not do,
    England, my own?
    —William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

    Earth does not understand her child,
    Who from the loud gregarious town
    Returns, depleted and defiled,
    To the still woods, to fling him down.
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)

    You common people of the skies,
    What are you when the moon doth rise?
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)