Bernadotte Perrin

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

• [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.
  • History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1912), p. 162
  • On interpreting Oriental history through the Greek of Herodotus