“… the huge church […] was thundering its gospel under her eyes.To have Niagara for a rival is no joke. Hazard spoke with no such authority; and Esther's next idea was one of wonder how, after listening here, any preacher could have the confidence to preach again. "What do they know about it?" she asked herself. "Which of them can tell a story like this, or a millionth part of it?"”

—  Henry Adams

Source: Esther: A Novel (1884), Ch. IX

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journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838–1918

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