Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Howard Mumford Jones
Born: April 16, 1892
Died: May 11, 1980 (aged 88)
Bio: Howard Mumford Jones was an American intellectual historian, literary critic, journalist, poet, and professor of English at Harvard University.
Known for:
- The age of energy (1971)
- America And French Culture 1750-1848 (1927)
- Revolution & romanticism (1974)
- Gargoyles and Other Poems (1918)
- Ideas in America (1944)