Strong Syllable

Famous quotes containing the words strong and/or syllable:

“Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicated, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the barking of a chickaree, and I could not understand a syllable of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)