Pocket Notebooks

"Beauty will save the world." - Fyodor Dostoevsky Out of context, it would be easy to dismiss this quotation as hopelessly naive. But for Dostoev...

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." - Shakespeare The illustration, inspired by the magic of ...

"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 ...

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

"To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield." - Lord Tennyson • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Offset printed ...

"I went t o the woods because I wished to live deliberately." - Henry David Thoreau Frost’s most anthologized and beloved poem, “Stopping by Wood...

"Doubt is unpleasant, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Offset printed with...

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby I’ve thought about this quotation often ove...

"As soon as I can leave, I shall go to Paris." - George Sand A row a cafe chairs, good for people watching – or in this case, the mascarons that...

"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 ...

"For we have thought the longer thoughts, and gone the shorter way." - Ernest Hemingway From his poem Chapter Heading. In his earlier work, Hemi...

"Who will watch the watchers?" - Juvenal Penned in 100 AD, Juneval’s most memorable quotation is a prescient warning about the unchecked power ...

"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 ...

"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...

"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...

"Glimmering twilight things are these, Visions of the end of night." - Paul Verlaine A pair of champagne glasses on a cafe table, the bubbles in...

"It is dangerous to be right when the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire "Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des ho...

"Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriosly distilling a few words, forever desiring - truth." - Virginia Woolf From her first short story collecti...

"All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses." - Walt Whitman • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Offset printed...