Famous quotes containing the words boston, globe and/or james:
“In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“I confess, the motto of the Globe newspaper is so attractive to me, that I can seldom find much appetite to read what is below it in its columns, The world is governed too much.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evenings traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.”
—Henry James (18431916)
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