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Everything we know...

Everything we know...

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves,...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: We climb to...

Amos Bronson Alcott: We climb to...

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were...

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Jessamyn West: In their sympathies,...

Jessamyn West: In their sympathies,...

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Source: The Life I...

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Inaction, save as...

Inaction, save as...

Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy...

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William Blackstone: It is better...

William Blackstone: It is better...

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Source:...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: We cannot all...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: We cannot all...

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.

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Genius is immediate,...

Genius is immediate,...

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Source: In The Wit & Wisdom of Women,...

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William Morris: If you want...

William Morris: If you want...

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be...

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Titus Livy: In difficult and...

Titus Livy: In difficult and...

In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.

Source: In...

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Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...

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A library, to...

A library, to...

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: To be ignorant...

Amos Bronson Alcott: To be ignorant...

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Source: In The...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Liberty is always...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Liberty is always...

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Source: In Correct...

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Frank Leahy: When the going...

Frank Leahy: When the going...

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

Source: In My Favorite...

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Jessamyn West: To meet at...

Jessamyn West: To meet at...

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are...

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Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Source: The Woman Within,...

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Greg Anderson: Although our inattention...

Greg Anderson: Although our inattention...

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive...

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Jessamyn West: A taste for...

Jessamyn West: A taste for...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke...

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Jean Toomer: I am not...

Jean Toomer: I am not...

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

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I love to...

I love to...

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think...

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