Famous quotes containing the words james, gordon and/or bennett:
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (18431916)
“I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day ...”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“I have heard arguments ... in favor of pardoning D. M. Bennett, convicted of sending obscene matter through the mails, viz., a pamphlet [by Ezra Hervey Heywood] of a polemical character in favor of free love. While I am satisfied that Bennett ought not to have been convicted, I am not satisfied that I ought to undertake to correct the mistakes of the courtsconstantly persisted inby the exercise of the pardoning power.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)