Parson Russell

Famous quotes containing the words parson and/or russell:

    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)

    Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)