John Milton
"Solitude sometimes is best society." - John Milton From Paradise Lost, Book Nine. For solitude sometimes is best society,And short retirement urg...
View full details"Solitude sometimes is best society." - John Milton From Paradise Lost, Book Nine. For solitude sometimes is best society,And short retirement urg...
View full details"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...
View full details"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 ...
View full details"We live in the flicker." - Joseph Conrad A lightning bolt splits the night, leaving a lasting impression before it fades into darkness. • 11x1...
View full details"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...
View full details"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...
View full details"Who will watch the watchers?" - Juvenal Penned in 100 AD, Juneval’s most memorable quotation is a prescient warning about the unchecked power ...
View full details"What am I doing here in this endless winter?" - Franz Kafka From his short, surrealist story, A Country Doctor. Although he died over a century ...
View full details"Have you ever heard the earth breathe?" - Kate Chopin With a little assistance from the wind, the branches and a bird work together to reveal a l...
View full details"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin This poignant quotation is from Chopi...
View full details"We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way" - Khalil Gibran From his bestselling masterpiece, The Prophet. The most well known of Gibran's work...
View full details"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." - Khalil Gibran Gibran's The Prophet is one ...
View full details"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard This simple observation from Kierkegaard’s journals s...
View full details"All that on a very small planet that would have to last forever." - Kurt Vonnegut What a bunch of buffoons we must look like to the Tralfamadoria...
View full details"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 ...
View full details"Endless lively conversations over endless cups of coffee in literary cafés" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Created in collaboration with Mr. Ferlinghett...
View full details"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...
View full details"He tried not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." - Leo Tolstoy This is one of the ...
View full details"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...
View full details"And Notre Dame's old gothic towers / Were bathed in roseate bloom." - Letitia Elizabeth Landon A bicycle with its basket full of flowers in fr...
View full details"She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain." - Louisa May Alcott From her novel Work: A Story of Experience. • 11x14 inch art print ...
View full details"To sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine." - Lucy Maud Montgomery Despite all of the misfortunes and challenges, Anne...
View full details"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...
View full details"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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