Henry Codman Potter Quotes

Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York (1835–1908)

Henry Codman Potter (May 25, 1835 – July 21, 1908), United States Protestant Episcopal bishop, the son of Bishop Alonzo Potter, was born in Schenectady, New York.

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Birth Name: Henry Codman Potter I

Alternative Names: Henry C. Potter • Henry Potter

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We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.

If there be no nobility of descent, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent, — a character in them that bear rule so fine and high and pure that as men come within the circle of its influence they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the royalty of virtue.