Parson Nathaniel

Famous quotes containing the words parson and/or nathaniel:

    “In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd’s dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)