David Everett

David Everett (29 March 1770– 21 December 1813) was a newspaper editor and proprietor, and a published poet.

Quotes

• You'd scarce expect one of my age
  To speak in public on the stage;
  And if I chance to fall below
  Demosthenes or Cicero,
  Don't view me with a critic's eye,
  But pass my imperfections by.
  Large streams from little fountains flow,
  Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
  • Lines written for a School Declamation, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "The lofty oak from a small acorn grows", Lewis Duncombe (1711–1730), De Minimus Maxima (translation).