It’s been nearly two years that I have had a soft spot for Paul Arden. An advertiser but also an amazingly clever man with a great sense of humour, he was able to convey his ideas on some very c...
I cannot imagine anyone who wouldn’t love Italy. If you don’t like its Etruscan, or Roman, or early medieval past, you may surely love the Italian Renaissance. Or you may love the Italian ...
Israel (from DeoTravel) A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies ...
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Sir John Lubbock, a British statesman....
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody’s word about them. Henry Bolingbroke, the ...
Library no. 166, Nagorny Boulevard, 3 (Moscow, Russia) Carola Huttmann has once narrated her childhood experience of visiting the library, looking for books, using the library card. I certainly share ...
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. Margaret Thatcher, a British politician....
My father once told me that there were two types of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group: there was much less competition. Indira Ga...
Mind of man knows full well And yet performs evil acts; How odd is it that, while holding A lamp he falls into the well. Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh ‘scripture’. There is a Guru Granth Sa...
In this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. Giacomo Casanova, The Story of My Life. The illustration in this post is a page from Casanova&#...