Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Russell Sturgis

Born: October 16, 1836
Died: February 11, 1909 (aged 72)
Bio: Russell Sturgis was an American architect and art critic of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870. Sturgis was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, the son of Russell and Margaret Dawes Sturgis.