Samuel Eliot Morison/the Scholar and Historian 1913-1941

Famous quotes containing the words eliot, scholar and/or historian:

    “... blameless people are always the most exasperating!”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)