Quote of the day
One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Gilbert Highet

Born: June 22, 1906
Died: January 20, 1978 (aged 71)
Bio: Gilbert Arthur Highet was a Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian.
Known for:
- The Art of Teaching (1950)
- Poets in a Landscape (1957)
- The anatomy of satire (1962)
- Man's Unconquerable Mind (1954)