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  1. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    The village is a great news‑room where men sit like prairie dogs, running the social gantlet of gossip.
    Thoreau, Henry David

  2. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    The iron horse snorts like thunder, steam unfurling like a banner—what if that force served noble ends instead of vanity?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  3. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    I met my yearly needs with six weeks' labor—so why do so many spend decades chasing a 'good business'?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  4. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    A faint jerk on the midnight line can yank you from cosmogony into a wriggling fish—what links your vast thoughts back to the pond?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  5. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    You are sculpting a temple with your flesh—nobleness refines your face; meanness imbrutes it—what god are you building for?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  6. The Odyssey

    He rolled the stone away as if clapping a quiver's lid, then ate two of my men—could I find a way to take revenge?
    Homer

  7. The Odyssey

    Tell us where you've wandered—and why the sight of the Danaans' homecoming pains you so.
    Homer

  8. The Odyssey

    My house is being eaten out from under me—who will stand with me against the suitors?
    Homer

  9. The Odyssey

    When my nurse recognised me, I gripped her and told her to hold her tongue—or suffer when I kill the suitors.
    Homer

  10. The Odyssey

    I had myself bound to the mast and my men's ears stopped with wax, so I alone could hear the Sirens.
    Homer

  11. Essays — First Series

    We clutch yesterday's friends so tightly we miss the archangels at the door.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  12. Essays — First Series

    insight reveals that revelation refuses to tell you 'how long'—it offers a way to live now; why do we still beg words for the future?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  13. Essays — First Series

    Power lives in becoming; reputation dies where the soul stops moving.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  14. Essays — First Series

    quotability argues that to forget yourself is the spark of greatness—so why do we counterfeit that abandonment with drink, dreams, and war?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  15. Essays — First Series

    Every life is shaped by a ruling thought; change the thought and you change the world you make.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson