Famous quotes containing the words kingdom and/or period:
“Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are not equal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the best men, as the Algonquins called them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)