Famous quotes containing the words daniel webster, daniel, webster and/or elementary:
“It appeared that he had once represented his tribe at Augusta, and also once at Washington, where he had met some Western chiefs. He had been consulted at Augusta, and gave advice, which he said was followed, respecting the eastern boundary of Maine, as determined by highlands and streams, at the time of the difficulties on that side. He was employed with the surveyors on the line. Also he called on Daniel Webster in Boston, at the time of his Bunker Hill oration.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“But ah, no more! this must not be foretold,
For women grieve to think they must be old.”
—Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)
“Heaven-gates are not so highly arched
As princes’ palaces: they that enter there
Must go upon their knees.”
—John Webster (1580–1625)
“As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature’s elementary materials.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)