Tuesday, September 5, 2017

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” – Helen Keller

From “Lincoln  365,” by Arnold Kunst
September 5
The political climate of the 1850's and 1860's was rife with the scurrilous. According to the newspapers of the day, Lincoln was 'a third-rate lawyer'; he lived 'in low Hoosier style'; he 'could not speak good grammar'; he delivered 'coarse and clumsy jokes'; he was descended from 'an African gorilla.'

'Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace like a clock in a thunderstorm.'
- Robert Louis Stevenson



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