Quote of the day
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Herbert Asbury

Born: September 1, 1889
Died: February 24, 1963 (aged 73)
Known for:
- The Gangs of New York (1928)
- The Barbary Coast (1933)
- The French Quarter (1936)
- The gangs of Chicago
- Up from Methodism (1926)






