Quote of the day
Here I am, in Quaker surroundings, whose restful simplicity is most congenial to me. I feel here the earnest desire for genuine growth and culture which founds a slow but sure success. I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
Bernard De Voto
Born: January 11, 1897
Died: November 13, 1955 (aged 58)
Bio: Bernard Augustine DeVoto was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West.
Known for:
- Across the Wide Missouri (1947)
- The year of decision, 1846 (1943)
- The Course of Empire (1952)
- The Western paradox
- The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto