Quotes

The underlying values expressed in the trilogy, in all the novels, are the old-fashioned primary values—courage, respect for one’s fellow man, self-reliance, courtesy, devotion

Writing of his friend Guillaumet, an intrepid mail pilot, in Wind, Sand and Stars, Saint-Exupéry said that moral greatness derives more from a sense

The Panama Railroad—the first steam road to El Dorado—was begun in 1850, at the height of the California gold craze. And by anyone’s standards

He criticizes previous manuals of rhetoric (none of which has survived) because they were more interested in dimensions of speechmaking that were extraneous to

From the outside, people see the records and stats…those numbers dehumanize the sport and what every athlete is trying to achieve,” Shiffrin wrote. “What

BBC World’s Busiest Cities, non fiction now Tai Pan by Clavell, fiction of founding

We are not happy unless we see ourselves making progress toward a goal that we value.

that the great myths and religious stories of the past, particularly those derived from an earlier, oral tradition, were moral in their intent, rather

A shared cultural system stabilizes human interaction, but is also a system of value—a hierarchy of value, where some things are given priority and

she was the first to record the flea’s leap, one of the miracles of nature. (“If you were a flea,” she informed me, “you