"Beauty will save the world." - Fyodor Dostoevsky Out of context, it would be easy to dismiss this quotation as hopelessly naive. But for Dostoevs...
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"The life so short, the craft so long to learn." - Geoffrey Chaucer The blades of a pair of dark shears create the silhouette of a mountain, and a...
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"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." - George Eliot From her novel Adam Bede. • 11x14 inch art print with white border •...
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"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe From The Maxims and Reflections. This is it, isn't it? When presented with the uncertainty of lif...
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"Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life." - H. G. Wells I see The Time Machine as a sto...
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"What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?" - Harriet Beecher Stowe From her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. • 11x14 inch ar...
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"The majority is never right." - Henrik Ibsen One bird leaves the flock, creating a simple equation: the individual is greater than the group. Ins...
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"The right time is any time that one is still lucky to have" - Henry James A calendar on its side transforms into an arrow. Time's ticking. Let's ...
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"It is not down in any map; true places never are." - Herman Melville From Chapter 12 of his masterpiece, Moby Dick, in which we learn the origin ...
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"I would prefer not to." - Herman Melville Bartleby is a mystery, one that has fascinated readers and literary critics alike. Is he a Christ figu...
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"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." - Ida B. Wells Trailblazing journalist Ida B. Wells knew what she stood for a...
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"The starry heavens above, and the moral law within. - Immanuel Kant SPECIAL ORDER: Ships in 1-2 weeks. An excellent summative statement of Kant's...
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"Run mad as often as you choose" - Jane Austen Everyone needs to cut loose once in a while, to throw off the restraints (in this case, some seriou...
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"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." - John Locke Pens practice writing, and through this study learn to express the ...
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"Solitude sometimes is best society." - John Milton From Paradise Lost, Book Nine. For solitude sometimes is best society,And short retirement urg...
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"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...
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"The future is but the present a little further on." - Jules Verne From wagon wheel to nucleus, progress comes full circle. • 11x14 inch art pr...
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"Who will watch the watchers?" - Juvenal Penned in 100 AD, Juneval’s most memorable quotation is a prescient warning about the unchecked power of o...
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"My soul has grown deep like the rivers." - Langston Hughes The river may have carried him to unfamiliar places, but he’s not adrift. • 11x14 ...
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"All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." - Leo Tolstoy No one one does heavy books with heavy themes quite like Tolstoy. But if yo...
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves." - Leo Tolstoy Not to be outdone by his novels, Tolstoy led an e...
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"Fate is not only a dramatist, it is also a stage manager." - Machado de Assis From his 1899 novel Dom Casmurro. Widely regarded by critics as on...
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"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." - Marcel Proust Some observations are so astute that once you rea...
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"Invention does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos." - Mary Shelley From the introduction to her novel Frankenstein. We respo...
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