Famous quotes containing the words henry david, henry and/or david:
“I aspire to be acquainted with wiser men than this our Concord soil has produced, whose names are hardly known here.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“So, when my mistress shall be seen
In form and beauty of her mind,
By virtue first, then choice, a queen,”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)
“The world is a cow that is hard to milk,—life does not come so easy,—and oh, how thinly it is watered ere we get it!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)