Famous quotes containing the words captain and/or york:
“I shall not be forward to think him mistaken in his method who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)