He was but as a voice crying in the wilderness.

We do not really know who was the author of 'The Imitation of Christ'-- a book that has had an immense circulation, and exercised a vast religious influence in all Christian countries.

It is usually attributed to Thomas a Kempis but there is reason to believe that he was merely its translator, and the book that is really known to be his, [1910] is in all respects so inferior, that it is difficult to believe that 'The Imitation' proceeded from the same pen.

It is considered more probable that the real author was John Gerson, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a most learned and devout man, who died in 1429.
Some of the greatest men of genius have had the shortest biographies.

Of Plato, one of the great fathers of moral philosophy, we have no personal account.