Famous quotes containing the words professor, hugo and/or strange:
“This unlettered mans speaking and writing are standard English. Some words and phrases deemed vulgarisms and Americanisms before, he has made standard American; such as It will pay. It suggests that the one great rule of compositionand if I were a professor of rhetoric I should insist on thisis, to speak the truth. This first, this second, this third; pebbles in your mouth or not. This demands earnestness and manhood chiefly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“It is strange that they will make ado when a mans body is buried, but not when he thus really and tragically dies, or seems to die.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)