Barnes Tavern

Famous quotes containing the words barnes and/or tavern:

    And I alone of all mankind
    Were left in loneliness behind.
    —William Barnes (1801–1886)

    The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavern is where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)