Incident Light

Famous quotes containing the words incident and/or light:

“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“We saw one schoolhouse in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic Church.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)