Francis Wayland

Francis Wayland (March 11, 1796 – September 30, 1865), was an American Baptist educator and economist. He was president of Brown University and pastor of the First Baptist Church in America in Providence, Rhode Island.

Quotes

 * It was Homer who gave laws to the artist.
 * The Iliad and the Bible, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 45.


 * It was Homer who inspired the poet.
 * The Iliad and the Bible, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 609.


 * When men differ in any matter of belief, let them meet each other manfully.
 * Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 162.


 * When the fight thickens the captain says, "Steady, boys;" and it is their steadiness which pulls the soldiers through. Fitful soldiers are rarely useful ones. That is our great need to-day, steady Christians — men and women you can count on. Many Christians are like intermittent springs. They flow to-day — to-morrow you cannot get a thimbleful of religious activity out of the dried channel of their lives.
 * Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 248.