Constable John Stevens

Famous quotes containing the words constable, john and/or stevens:

    “The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He’ll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The consolations of space are nameless things.
    It was after the neurosis of winter. It was
    In the genius of summer that they blew up
    The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds.
    It took all day to quieten the sky
    And then to refill its emptiness again....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)