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)

“It’s impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, in the position of having almost infinitely free will.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

“God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)