Famous quotes containing the words wood and/or wrote:
“If the axe is not sharp, it doesn’t matter how hard the wood is.”
—Chinese proverb.
“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)