Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.[1]

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Images

Works

Winslow Homer (1836-1910), The Fog Warning, 1885, oil on canvas, h 76.8 x w 123.1 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was an American poet, novelist, travel writer and editor.

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Quotes·Quotations by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

May

¶ [May]
Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey.

¶ [October]
October turned my maple's leaves to gold;
The most are gone now; here and there one lingers.
Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold,
Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bailey_Aldrich

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902)

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902)

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet. He is famous for his remark, often misquoted: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

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Quotes·Quotations by Lord Acton

Freedom

@ Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
[in The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)]

Writing·Reading

¶ Learn as much by writing as by reading.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Acton