Quote of the Day

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!

“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!” — Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSpecimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1831-12-18)