Homer/period

Famous quotes containing the words homer and/or period:

    “To him Homer was a great writer, though what his writing was about he did not know.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)