Subsequent Drive Letters

Famous quotes containing the words subsequent, drive and/or letters:

    “And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.”
    —Francis Bret Harte (1836–1902)

    “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In one instance, we understood that a woman was the post- mistress, and they said that she made the best one on the road; but we suspected that the letters must be subjected to a very close scrutiny there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)