Quote of the day
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
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)