Phillips Brooks Quotes


It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.


Citations

Brooks, Phillips. New Starts in Life, and Other Sermons. E. P. Dutton & Company, 1896, p. 165.

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Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks
  • Born: December 13, 1835
  • Died: January 23, 1893
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Clergyman

Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. He wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem".