"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me." - Charlotte Brontë Despite being the daughters of a vicar and growing up in a parsonage, Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë were a wild bunch. At an early age, they demonstrated their...
"Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov. This passage is so awesome, we included the entire excerpt in our design to provide context for Dostoevsky's stunning insight into personal responsibility. The entire passage reads: "And above all, do not...
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson was a prolific essayist and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement. He championed individualism and man’s profound connection to nature. This quotation from his mid...
"Hope is the thing with feathers" - Emily Dickinson Leave it to Emily Dickinson to find that perfect metaphor. Even when you think she’s doing something so simple, there are hidden depths to plumb. Developing the concept of hope into a bird...
"And miles to go before I sleep" - Robert Frost From his classic poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Like many, this poem was one of the first we learned in school, and I have to admit there's something magical...
"My soul has grown deep like the rivers." - Langston Hughes As a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes gave a dignified, eloquent, deeply human voice to Black Americans. This line is from one of his seminal early...
