Honors
Bartlett received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1871. In 1892, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His Familiar Quotations is now in its seventeenth edition and is still published by Little, Brown.
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Famous quotes containing the word honors:
“My heart’s subdued
Even to the very quality of my lord.
I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,
And to his honors and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There is a moment when god honors falsehood.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“The sire then shook the honors of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)