Bernadotte Perrin
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Bernadotte Perrin (September 15, 1847 – August 31, 1920) was an American classicist and sometime Lampson Professor of Greek Literature and History at Yale University.
Quotes
[edit]- [B]etween impulsive hearts and compulsive authority, you have consistently seasoned justice with mercy, and invigorated mercy with justice.
- Address of Professor Bernadotte Perrin, Presenting to Professor Henry Parks Wright a Silver Medal from the Members of the Faculty of Yale College, 1884–1909, on June 25, 1909, at the Close of his Twenty-five Years of Service as Dean (1909)
- In praise of Henry Parks Wright, referencing Portia's "quality of mercy" in The Merchant of Venice, IV, 1
- It is as though we had to reconstruct for ourselves a mountain range from its distorted reflections in the bosom of a lake.