Quote of the Day (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, on ‘Boastful Breath’)

“Big words do not smite like war-clubs,

Boastful breath is not a bow-string,

Taunts are not so sharp as arrows,

Deeds are better things than words are,

Actions mightier than boastings!”—American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

Most aware readers will understand immediately the public figure who, over the last several years, has most embodied the concept of “boastful breath.”  No other commentary on my part is necessary.