Parson Nathaniel

Famous quotes containing the words parson and/or nathaniel:

    “A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “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)