Spirit Detective

Famous quotes containing the words spirit and/or detective:

“Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy for the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In the towns I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways—”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)