Sherwood

Famous quotes containing the word sherwood:

    “The radical changes in society from the small, well-considered hundreds to the countless thousands have of course destroyed the neighborly character of the strange conglomerate. It is more ornamental and much more luxurious now than then.”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    “Time should be imaged with a paint-brush instead of a scythe; he knows how to wield the former even better than the latter.”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    “... 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)