Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Charles Eliot Norton
Born: November 16, 1827
Died: October 21, 1908 (aged 80)
Bio: Charles Eliot Norton was a leading American author, social critic, and professor of art. He was a progressive social reformer and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporaries considered the most cultivated man in the United States.
Known for:
- Notes of travel and study in Italy (1859)
- A leaf of grass from Shady hill
- Heart of oak books (1893)