American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835-January 23, 1893) was an American writer and speaker. He attended Harvard while James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow taught there. He pastored in Philadelphia before becoming the rector of Trinity Church in Boston, and later the bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Massachusetts. In 1867, he wrote the song, O Little Town of Bethlehem: <O little town of Bethlehem! How still we see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of...

Mark Twain (November 30, 1835-April 21, 1910) a river measurement meaning "two fathoms deep," was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Growing up along the Mississippi River in Hannibal, Missouri, he left school at age 12, when his father died.  Becoming a printer's apprentice, he worked briefly for his brother Orion Clemens, who owned a newspaper. For the next several years, he was a "tramp printer," working and writing in St. Louis, New York City, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and numerous smaller cities. In 1857-61, as an apprentice Mississippi river pilot, he acquired his pen name from an old steamboat pilot who...

Francis Marion Cockrell (October 1, 1834-December 13, 1915) was a U.S. Senator from Missouri. In 1875, at the beginning of his five consecutive terms, 1875-1910, he stated: <Christianity is a reality, not an appearance. Were it a myth devised by cunning impostors, it would have come to naught before this. It has done more to fraternize the races than all human systems of religion together. The Bible is supreme over all books. Beside it there is none other. Its Divine truths meet the wants of a world-wide humanity.> 1834FC001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved,...

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (June 19, 1834-January 31, 1892) was known as the 'Prince of Preacher,' as he preached to over ten million people. He was pastor of New Park Street Chapel in London (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) for 38 years. William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, purchased Spurgeon's 5,103-volume library collection in 1906, and sold it in 2006 to Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, also has a collection of Spurgeon's handwritten sermon notes and galley proofs from 1879-1891. Spurgeon's works have been translated into many languages, including: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Castilian (for...

Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834-March 6, 1867) was an American writer and humorist. He wrote for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where he created the popular character "Artemus Ward," a traveling showman. Writing as Artemus Ward, Browne composed satirical letters of comment on American life and politics. These contained intentional misspellings and puns which delighted readers. In 1859 Browne wrote for Vanity Fair, and in 1862 he published his work, Artemus Ward: His Book, in which he gave advice, such as: <Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do it.> 1834CB001 Charles Browne toured extensively...