Parson Nathaniel

Famous quotes containing the words parson and/or nathaniel:

    “The parson was working his Sunday’s text,—
    Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed
    At what the—Moses—was coming next.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “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)