And writers, too, no doubt

English author Evelyn Waugh died on this day in 1966.

"If politicians and scientists were lazier," Waugh wrote, "how much happier we should all be."

For more on Waugh, visit Today in Farewells

New chapters added all the time, however

American author Lincoln Steffens was born on this day in 1866.

"Power is what men seek," Steffens wrote, "and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same old story."

If Old Hickory's a tree, Bush is a shrub

Andrew Jackson was born today in 1767.


"(Jackson is) one of the most unfit men I know of for such a place (the Presidency)." -- Thomas Jefferson