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:
“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)
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)