A house that must last a very long time

French writer and aphorist Michel de Montaigne was born on Feb. 28, 1533.

"The ceaseless labor of a man's whole life," he wrote, "is to build the house of death."

And universities, too

Today is the birthday of Oral Roberts, born in 1918.

"Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens." -- Montaigne.