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"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing." - Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence.  "You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, ...

"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...

"Solitude sometimes is best society." - John Milton From Paradise Lost, Book Nine. For solitude sometimes is best society,And short retirement urg...

"Without knowledge, there can be no morality." - Mary Wollstonecraft From her essay, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. • 11x14 inch art pri...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"Imagination is a good servant and a bad master." - Agatha Christie Spoken by that brilliant Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. A series of interl...

"Individuality is more than nationality." - Sui Sin Far From her collection Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian, 1890. Sui Sin Far as ...

"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 ...

"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...

"The cause of war is preparation for war." - WEB Du Bois An unsuspecting child builds a sandcastle as an impossibly large stockpile of armaments c...

"Knowledge is power." - Thomas Hobbes An official document is stripped of any subversive information, leaving only a simple, self-evident truth. ...

"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...

"Until we are all free, we are none of us free." - Emma Lazarus Best known for her poem The New Colossus, which is inscribed on the Statue of Li...

"All things that pass are wisdom's looking glass." - Christina Rossetti It is often the most difficult lessons in life that shape us into the best...

"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...

"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...

"'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days" - Omar Khayyám Composed in the eleventh century, and translated into English in 1859, The Rubáiyát...

"We are all in paradise but refuse to see it." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky in 1879: Survives Russian winters and four ...