Samuel Eliot Morison/the Scholar and Historian 1913-1941

Famous quotes containing the words samuel, eliot, scholar and/or historian:

“Surely this is the bitterness of death.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 15:32.

“Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“The scholar might frequently emulate the propriety and emphasis of the farmer’s call to his team, and confess that if that were written it would surpass his labored sentences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change—only to give stability to one beautiful moment.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)