Brother Jacob

Brother Jacob may refer to:

  • Jacob Dacian, a Danish Franciscan monk (Copenhagen c. 1484 – Michoacan, Mexico, 1566)
  • "Brother Jacob", a short story by George Eliot

Famous quotes containing the words brother and/or jacob:

    The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)