Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Francis Marion Crawford

Born: August 2, 1854
Died: April 9, 1909 (aged 54)
Bio: Francis Marion Crawford was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories.
Known for:
- The upper berth (1894)
- The Witch of Prague (1885)
- For the Blood is the Life
- Don Orsino (1891)
- Ave Roma immortalis (1898)







