Quotes

We will leave it as a test: when anyone has studied Mr. Pounds poem’s in chronological order, and has mastered Lustra and Cathay, he

Joyce is living in obscurity in Trieste and has failed to find a publisher for Dubliners, although the book is long finished. He is

Adams and James had willy-nilly established the pattern that many modern writers would treat as inevitable: the link between high artistic achievment and small

…since men are strangely inclined to worship what they do not understand – a grand secret, upon which several imposers on mankind have totally

Philosophy and religion may be called the exercise of the mind, and when this is disordered they are as wholesome as exercise can be

His first book, “Sartor Resartus” (1833-1834), eventually had great popular success, although initially he had a very difficult time finding a publisher. His next

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Ford failed twice at automobile manufacturing, once as a manager employed by others and again with a company he started himself.

The newspaper is that which connects each individual with the general life of mankind.

In the 1850s, more than half the children born in New York City died before reaching the age of 5.