Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
July 10, 1666: On this day, a fire destroyed the home of English poet Anne Bradstreet. She used the disaster as inspiration for a poem, rather fittingly titled "Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666."
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