Pencil/history

Famous quotes containing the words pencil and/or history:

    The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
    Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)