Quotes About Leo Damrosch

You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried to in my time to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

He liked to recall a statement the seventeenth-century diplomat William Temple made in retirement, that the gratifications of the public world are as nothing compared with "old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read.