Famous quotes containing the words herbert and/or began:
“They told me there, that he was lately gone
About some land, which he had dearly bought
Long since on earth, to take possession.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“When I began to have a fire at evening, before I plastered my house, the chimney carried smoke particularly well, because of the numerous chinks between the boards.... Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? These forms are more agreeable to the fancy and imagination than fresco paintings or other the most expensive furniture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)