Sunday's Quote

Hard to believe the following came from a guy best known as a politician. But then, DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) was from a generation of political figures who were apparently motivated more by civic duty and public responsibility than personal aggrandizement.

"Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity,
and power a pageant; but knowledge is
ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame,
unlimited in space and indefinite
in duration."