The Odyssey

When Dawn spread out her finger tips of rose...

~Homer

The Republic

"For if men are sensible and good-tempered, old age is easy enough to bear: if not, youth as well as old age is a burden."

~Plato, said by character Cephalus 

On Dumpster Diving

The things I find in Dumpsters, the love letters and the ragdolls of so many lives, remind me of this lesson. Now I hardly pick up a thing without envisioning the time I will cast it away. This I think is a healthy state of mind. Almost everything I have now has already been cast out at least once, proving that what I own is valueless to someone. 

~Lars Eighner

Yes Please

I believe great people do things before they are ready. 

~Amy Poehler

History of the Peloponnesian War

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever. 

~Thucydides

Days We Have Seen

'Quo Vadis?' I asked myself, "Where are you going?" The answer was that I was following my heart; that I felt there was a 'rightness' about what I was doing that was unshakeable. 

~Peter Moore

The Count of Monte Cristo

It was a lovely starlight night--they had just reached the top of the hill Villejuif, the platform from whence Paris, like some dark sea, is seen to agitate its millions of lights, resembling phosphoric waves,--waves indeed, more noisy, more passionate, more changeable, more furious, more greedy, than those of the tempestuous ocean,--waves which never lie calm, like those of the vast sea,--waves ever destructive, ever foaming, and ever restless. 

~Alexandre Dumas