Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. **Walden: Thoreau's classic account of the two years he spent living in a cabin at Walden Pond. (Non-Fi…

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising; but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it. 1

Could we, with human reason, process the finality of death, we would be very different souls, giving more than we take, forgiving easily, and listening with al…

The first thing I remember about the world:is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides th…

Ni cheffir eithr o'i weithred Aberth Crist I borthi cred. Bywyd ni chaiff, ni beiwn, Pab nac ymherawdr heb hwn, Na brenin naelwin hoywlyw, Dien ei bwyll, na dy…