Augustus Hand

Augustus Hand may refer to:

  • Augustus C. Hand (1803–1878), U.S. Congressman from New York
  • Augustus Noble Hand (1869–1954), U.S. federal judge from New York

Famous quotes containing the words augustus and/or hand:

    “I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.”
    —J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)

    “The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble in reading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)