Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Charles Fletcher Dole

Born: 1845
Died: 1927 (aged 82)
Bio: Charles Fletcher Dole was an influential Unitarian minister, speaker, and writer in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, Massachusetts, and Chairman of the Association to Abolish War.
Known for:
- The American citizen (1891)
- The citizen and the neighbor (1884)
- The coming people (1897)
- Noble womanhood (1900)