The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections of the present. They disappear very quickly. You should read more old books. The classics. Goethe. What is merely...

La città di Leonia rifà se stessa tutti i giorni: ogni mattina la popolazione si risveglia tra lenzuola fresche, si lava con saponette appena sgusciate dall’involucro, indossa vestaglie nuove fiammanti, estrae dal più perfezionato frigorifero...

But she forgot nothing, and he sometimes forgot much too quickly, and, often that same day, encouraged by her composure, would laugh and frolic over the champagne, if friends stopped by. What venom must have...

Change the world so that nothing else is changed.

Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang

«C’ero, prima di nascere? No. Ci sarò dopo la morte? No. Che sono? Un po’ di polvere tenuta insieme da un organismo. Che cosa debbo fare su questa terra? Ho la scelta: o soffrire, o...

Pearls’ burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. ‘Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?”I should think they could,’ said Moomintoll. ‘Ankle-rings, and nose-rings and ear-rings and engagement rings…

Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread;...

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

A man, any man, will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise...

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing — fortifying and bracing — seemingly just as was wanted...

In the deep Mysteries of the world, their belong time, still unexplored and to be explored.

He granted its due share to everything equally, drawing from everything only what was beautiful in it, and in the end left himself only the divine Raphael as a teacher. So a great poetic artist,...

As we travel in time and on Equator, we will find our souls and then move in time towards time.

The idea only true or right “meaning” would be that shared by the largest number of the best readers after repeated and careful readings over several generations, different periods, nationalities, moods, degrees of alertness, private...

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards.” – Atticus Finch

There is no light. I don’t feel like starting my generator. I used to get a big kick out saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the hell’s the point, since they all have to...

I’ve never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o’ course.” –Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.

This is fan fiction, but it’s the fan fiction of a classical scholar who knows his stuff, even if he is a touch irreverent and unorthodox.

Such a women as you a hundred men always convet – your eyes will bewitch scores on scores into an unvailing fancy for you – you can only marry one of that many…The rest may...

When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent -Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed,The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore- he...

The last thing he ever said to me was, ‘Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

If the spark doesn’t come, that’s a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.

Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem.

Let them Teach,Let them learn,let them pray,for the world is theirs.

Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because somebody or something has compelled me to be certain places, at certain times,...

Checché se ne dica, la rivoluzione francese è il più potente passo del genere umano, dopo l’avvento di Cristo. Incompleta, sia pure; ma sublime. Essa ha trovato il valore di tutte le incognite sociali; ha...

A man leaves his great house because he’s boredWith life at home, and suddenly returns,Finding himself no happier abroad.He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,You’ld think he’s going to a house on fire,And...

Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly cherished creatures, made his own selection, and began to read.

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you –...

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin..

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

She turned, and at her turning came a fragrant airOf godhead, and her robe grew long; ambrosial hairFlashed, and a rosy brightness on her neck, and allThe goddess in her going was revealed. His callFollowed...

In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment...

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one...

He means take a bath. See there, I told you he wouldn’t bother you.

Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.

Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith’s trunk. Behind Tacy’s house the sun had set. A wind had...

WILDE: Oh — Bosie! (He weeps.) I have to go back to him, you know. Robbie will be furious but it can’t be helped. The betrayal of one’s friends is a bagatelle in the stakes...

There were a few middle-aged and even elderly women in the train, their silver-wiry hair and wrinkled faces, scourged by time and trouble, having almost a grotesque, certainly a pathetic, appearance in such a jaunty...

I could read the great books but the great books don’t interest me.

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and...

É clássico aquilo que persiste como rumor mesmo onde predomina a atualidade mais incompatível.

Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.