Birmingham Pen Trade/history

Famous quotes containing the words pen, trade and/or history:

    As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    If usually the “present age” is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as the history of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.
    Josiah Royce (1855–1916)