Jacob Wheeler

Famous quotes containing the words jacob and/or wheeler:

“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)

“It ain’t often that a man’s reputashun outlasts his munny.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)