Famous quotes containing the words downward and/or closed:
“All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
“No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)