Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Henry Stephens Salt
Born: September 20, 1851
Died: April 19, 1939 (aged 87)
Bio: Henry Stephens Salt was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals.
Known for:
- Life of Henry David Thoreau (1890)
- Seventy Years Among Savages (1921)
- Humanitarian essays (1897)