Quote of the day
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Justin Kaplan

Born: September 5, 1925
Died: March 2, 2014 (aged 88)
Bio: Justin Daniel "Joe" Kaplan was an American writer and editor. The general editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, he was best known as a biographer, particularly of Samuel Clemens, Lincoln Steffens, and Walt Whitman.
Known for:
- Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography (1966)
- Walt Whitman: A Life (1980)
- Lincoln Steffens (1974)