Spirit Events

Famous quotes containing the words spirit and/or events:

“This spirit it was which so early carried the French to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the Spaniard to the same river on the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West, and a voyageur or coureur de bois is still our conductor there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.