Saint Joseph River

Famous quotes containing the words saint, joseph and/or river:

“The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly—because if they don’t speak fast nobody will listen to them.”
—Michael Caine [Maurice Joseph Micklewhite] (b. 1933)

“There is a great river this side of Stygia,”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)