“I have been told,” said the count, “that you do not always yourselves understand the signals you repeat.” “That is true, sir, and that is what I like best,” said t...
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...
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else. O’Henry, an American writer....
This is not a book that one can read – if reading means to start at the first page and to finish on the last. Here it does not end. One can use this book their entire life. One can also read it ...
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&#...
Richard Rothwell, A Portrait of Mary Shelley Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos. Mary Shelley, the English writer....
Kinship is a blood relationship, friendship is a love relationship. The proverb of the Luyia people, the Bantu ethnic group that lives predominantly in Kenya but also in parts of Uganda and Tanzania....
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity. Albert Einstein, a German physicist, the ...
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. Michel de Montaigne, a French philosopher...
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recen...