French Historian

Famous quotes containing the words french and/or historian:

    “‘Are ye right there, Michael? are ye right?
    Do you think that we’ll be there before the night?
    Ye’ve been so long in startin’,
    That ye couldn’t say for sartin’—
    Still ye might now, Michael, so ye might!’”
    —William Percy French (1854–1920)

    “There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)