1790s
Source: The Age of Reason
“A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.”
Henry George Liddell (1811–1898) Headmaster, lexicographer, classical scholar, and dean
Of his headmaster at Charterhouse, Dr. Russell; p. 31.
Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982)
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Context: No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life have the effect of fixing a certain stiffness of attitude forever, as though they mesmerised the subject.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath
The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation
“682. One father is more than a hundred schoole-masters.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Jan Hus (1369–1415) Czech linguist, religion writer, theologist, university educator and science writer
Source: A Companion to Jan Hus (2015), p. 225.
John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist
Source: The Light of Day (1900), Ch. X: Religious Truth
“All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Avenged
“One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns…”
Mario Puzo (1920–1999) American Novelist
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 51
