Southern Humboldt

Famous quotes containing the words southern and/or humboldt:

“My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)