Quotes of Note: Books and Grizzly Bears

“All in all, Roosevelt’s interests in arts and letters were almost unique among American chief executives. To Louis Einstein…he seemed to reincarnate the Renaissance ideal of “the well-rounded life of thought and action.”  Einstein thought that the president was like Italian princes of the sixteenth century in combining a thirst for learning and adventure – mastering both books and grizzly bears.” (Theodore Roosevelt A Life, pg 427, Nathan Miller)