David Grayson

Ray Stannard Baker, (April 17, 1870-July 12, 1946), American journalist and author, was born in Lansing, Michigan as David Grayson. After graduating from Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State), he attended law school at the University of Michigan in 1891 before launching his career as a journalist in 1892 with the Chicago News-Record, where he covered the Pullman Strike and Coxey's Army in 1893.

5 Quotes

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
— David Grayson

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
— David Grayson

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
— David Grayson

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
— David Grayson

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.
— David Grayson