Frases de Nathaniel Parker Willis

Nathaniel Parker Willis fue un autor estadounidense. Era descendiente de George Willis, descripto como un puritano de considerable distinción, que arribó a Nueva Inglaterra cerca de 1630 y se estableció en Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. enero 1806 – 20. enero 1867
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Nathaniel Parker Willis: Frases en inglés

“He who binds
His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.”

Willis, The Scholar of Thibét Ben Khorat, II. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.

“At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.”

Necessity for a Promenade Drive. Compare: "I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here." Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Sam Slick in England, 2 Chap., xxiv.; "Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,—not upper ten thousand", James Fenimore Cooper, The Ways of the Hour, chapter vi. (1850).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)

“The sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven
By man is cursed alway.”

Unseen Spirits.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)

“Wisdom sits alone
Topmost in Heaven.”

The Scholar of Thibet.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)