"Exit, pursued by a bear" is a stage direction from Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale that is infamous for its hilarity and difficulty to stage. It's one of the best literary inside jokes (welcome to the club!) and it's a fun line...

Inspiration for our Dostoevsky illustration is from the Biographical Notes section of "The Brothers Karamazov." It's a wonderful passage that stands on its own as a poignant piece of literature.  "Notes of the Life of the deceased Priest and Monk,...

"Night and Day," an excerpt, by Virginia Woolf Illustration by Evan Robertson.   “I don’t care much whether I ever get to know anything—but I want to work out something in figures—something that hasn’t got to do with human beings....

"After all I have no nationality and am not anxious to claim any. Individuality is more than nationality. 'You are you and I am I,' says Confucius.” - Sui Sin Far.  Sui Sin Far was the daughter of a British...

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." - John Stuart Mill. From his classic philosophical treatise On Liberty: "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His...

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Lord Alfred Tennyson. From his extraordinary poem Ulysses. The complete excerpt reads: Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days...