Famous quotes containing the words samuel, eliot, scholar and/or historian:
“...be men and fight.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 4:9.
“When one wanted ones 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 peoples 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 writers 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 (19191983)
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