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.
John Kendrick Bangs
Born: May 27, 1862
Died: January 21, 1922 (aged 59)
Bio: John Kendrick Bangs was an American author, editor and satirist.
Known for:
- A House-Boat on the Styx (1895)
- The Enchanted Type-Writer (1899)
- The Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897)
- Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1907)
- The idiot (1895)