Sherwood

Famous quotes containing the word sherwood:

    ... what a strange time it was! Who knew his neighbor? Who was a traitor and who a patriot? The hero of to-day was the suspected of to-morrow.... There were traitors in the most secret council-chambers. Generals, senators, and secretaries looked at each other with suspicious eyes.... It is a great wonder that the city of Washington was not betrayed, burned, destroyed a half-dozen times.
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation’s prayer ever in dumb music ascending.
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    ... the first cathedral you see remains with you forever as the cathedral of the world.
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)