Captain James Hope

Famous quotes containing the words captain, james and/or hope:

“I would not knock old fellows in the dust
But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
His weapons were the old heart in his bust
And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

“True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.”
—William James (1842–1910)

“We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)