Fort Saint Louis

Famous quotes containing the words fort, saint and/or louis:

    “How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A saint is good who wanders constantly.
    Water is good which flows continuously.”
    —Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

    “The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)