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Thomas Carlyle: If time is...

Thomas Carlyle: If time is...

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at...

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Thomas Carlyle: No sooner is...

Thomas Carlyle: No sooner is...

No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a...

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Thomas Carlyle: In the long-run...

Thomas Carlyle: In the long-run...

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say,...

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Thomas Carlyle: Man is emphatically...

Thomas Carlyle: Man is emphatically...

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Thomas Carlyle: No age seemed...

Thomas Carlyle: No age seemed...

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Thomas Carlyle: The tragedy of...

Thomas Carlyle: The tragedy of...

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Eloquence is the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Eloquence is the...

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: One definition of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: One definition of...

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Source: Society and...

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Mahatma Gandhi: There is no...

Mahatma Gandhi: There is no...

There is no god higher than truth.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: To do great...

Friedrich Nietzsche: To do great...

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Books are for...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Books are for...

Books are for nothing but to inspire.

Source: The American Scholar.
-- Ralph...

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Doug Horton: Happiness in the...

Doug Horton: Happiness in the...

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Source: In...

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Doug Horton: Love is seeing...

Doug Horton: Love is seeing...

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Source: In...

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Boris Pasternak: Art has two...

Boris Pasternak: Art has two...

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great,...

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Boris Pasternak: I come here...

Boris Pasternak: I come here...

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It...

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G K Chesterton: With monstrous head...

G K Chesterton: With monstrous head...

With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil's walking parody
On all...

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Charles Dickens: Wal'r, my boy,'...

Charles Dickens: Wal'r, my boy,'...

'Wal'r, my boy,' replied the Captain, `in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never...

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Charles Dickens: C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb...

Charles Dickens: C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb...

C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement. When the boy...

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Charles Dickens: Ain't I volatile?...

Charles Dickens: Ain't I volatile?...

Ain't I volatile?

Source: (Miss Mowcher) David Copperfield, Ch. 22
-- Charles...

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Charles Dickens: He's a going...

Charles Dickens: He's a going...

He's a going out with the tide.

Source: (Mr Peggotty) David Copperfield, Ch. ...

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