Quote of the day
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
Richard W. Bailey

Born: 1939
Died: 2011 (aged 72)
Bio: Richard Weld Bailey was an American linguist, scholar of the English language, and the Fred Newton Scott Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Known for:
- Images of English (1991)
- Nineteenth-century English (1996)
- English stylistics (1965)
- Rogue Scholar (2003)






