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"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars and tenet...

"I resolved never to be conquered." - Harriet Jacobs It goes without saying that Harriet Jacobs was an extraordinary human being. From an illitera...

"Dance as wildly, as noisily, as furiously as you can." - Mark Twain From his travelogue The Innocents Abroad. Mark Twain spent much of his time in...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." - Henry David Thoreau From his beloved book, Walden—a record of his communion with na...

"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...

"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...

"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here." - William Shakespeare This line kicks off the second scene of The Tempest. Stunned by the fury of Pr...

"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...

"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." - Marcel Proust Some observations are so astute that once you rea...

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." - Omar Khayyám This illustration depicts two warring ideas in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám...

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" - John Keats Inspired by one of the most famous and hotly debated lines of verse in the English language, this ill...

"Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat!" - William Shakespeare So I had my horns done. What do you think? Outrageously expensive, but worth it i...

"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it." - William Shakespeare What is it about an undersized box that cats find so irresistib...

"All truths wait in all things." - Walt Whitman An image bifurcated into light and dark. Above, a blade of grass lifts as it's caught in the breez...

"Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.I have heard the mermaids sing...

"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 ...

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson Dickinson's extraordinary poetry at its most intimate.  It ne...

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby I’ve thought about this quotation often over t...

"Working in silence, the machine became invisible." - Franz Kafka A gentleman strides forth on a treadmill of ones and zeros, oblivious to the inv...

"I know why the caged bird sings" - Paul Laurence Dunbar From his beloved poem,Sympathy, which he wrote in 1899 while working as a clerk at the Lib...

"The sea is big and old." - Ernest Hemingway Too simple for your taste? Perhaps he should have gone with "the sea is boundless and ancient," or "t...

"I would always rather be happy than dignified." - Charlotte Brontë A cyclist makes her own path. From her novel Jane Eyre. • 11x14 inch art pr...

"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...

"Imagination! Who can sing thy force?" - Phyllis Wheatley From her lyrical poem, On Imagination Phyllis Wheatley’s story is exceptional. As a you...