Samuel McChord Crothers Quotes

United States, Writer
June 7, 1857 – November, 0, 1927.

Samuel McChord Crothers (June 7, 1857–November 1927) was an American Unitarian minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist. Crothers graduated from Wittenberg College in 1873. In 1874, he graduated from College of New Jersey. After earning a divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary in 1877, he became a Presbyterian minister. He resigned in 1881 and converted to the Unitarian church in 1882.

To keep shooting at a folly after it is dead is unsportsmanlike.

Samuel McChord Crothers
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

Samuel McChord Crothers
- Trouble
- Facts
- Many

We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.

Samuel McChord Crothers
There is no absurdity in its mental processes; all that is concealed in its assumptions.

Samuel McChord Crothers
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers
- Different
- May
- Amazing
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Samuel McChord Crothers
- Writing
- Tired
- Poet