Benjamin Pickerel

Famous quotes containing the words benjamin and/or pickerel:

    Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)