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.
John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Born: September 19, 1805
Died: June 17, 1877 (aged 71)
Bio: John Stevens Cabot Abbott, an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.
Known for:
- David Crockett (1874)
- The Empire of Russia (1860)







