Samuel Eliot Morison/the Scholar and Historian 1913-1941

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

    “...be men and fight.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 4:9.

    “When one wanted one’s interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people’s tricks.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “A scholar without going outside his door can know all the affairs of the world.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “The writer’s language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.”
    —Paul De Man (1919–1983)