For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return.John MiltonWrite now →Details & source
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident to-morrows.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
Give me again my hollow tree, A crust of bread, and liberty.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
'T is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.Lord ByronWrite now →Details & source
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.John MiltonWrite now →Details & source
Books that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!William CowperWrite now →Details & source
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material s…Thomas CarlyleWrite now →Details & source
When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers.ConfuciusWrite now →Details & source
Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'T is only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than…Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source
Society is now one polish'd horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.Lord ByronWrite now →Details & source
The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and wher…Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.Benjamin FranklinWrite now →Details & source
Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?John MiltonWrite now →Details & source
I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,— His eyes are in his …Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWrite now →Details & source
A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source
No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.Lord ByronWrite now →Details & source
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Virtuous and vicious every man must be,— Few in the extreme, but all in the degree.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.Thomas CarlyleWrite now →Details & source