TS Eliot Quote from East Coker

In the middle, not only in the middle of the way but all the way, in a dark wood, in a bramble, on the edge of a grimpen, where is no secure foothold, and menaced by monsters, fancy lights, risking enchantment.

East Coker from The Four Quartets 

Quote from Revolution's Godchild

"to say a word about North Carolina -presumably a fresh topic here, the modest, conservative old State, lacking perhaps in enterprise, lacking in self-assertion, but always prompt at the call of duty, and shrinking from no sacrifice when honor is at stake". 

"I will conclude by asking the benefit of your aid and influence in my effort to restore North Carolina to her place in the Cincinnati; and I offer you a toast to our ancient and honorable Order, coupled with the hope that her galaxy may soon again be resplendent with all the thirteen stars."

Edward Graham Dave's 1894 July 4 Boston