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  1. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    Tie yourself to the mast like Ulysses and sail past the dinner whirlpool—what daily current has been dragging you?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  2. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    The poorest life can hold the richest hours—where will you seek your abundance when money fails?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  3. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    White Pond is a lake of light we take for granted—what jewels are you abandoning for a glittering illusion?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  4. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    The Iron Horse has muddied our sacred spring—who will stand between progress and what it destroys?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  5. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    A field of water betrays the spirit in the air—what subtler currents does your life reflect?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  6. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    Your comforts are built on somebody else's deprivation—who is paying for the life you call civilized?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  7. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    Students pay yearly rent for a shelter they could build for life—what if education meant learning to live instead of renting leisure?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  8. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    Dawning Nature looked in at my windows with a satisfied face—the question I couldn't answer in sleep had already been settled by the day.
    Thoreau, Henry David

  9. Essays — First Series

    If you wait for the crowd to pray, God will remain silent—what does quiet devotion demand of you?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  10. Essays — First Series

    Your life turns on a private thought by the roadside—what single revision has silently ruled you?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  11. Essays — First Series

    Genius doesn't hoard light; it makes you richer than the poem—why praise the work over the source?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  12. Essays — First Series

    Every ending is only a circle's edge—how far will you draw the next one?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  13. The Odyssey

    A father's tear falls to the ground—yet his son, still unable to believe, holds back trust and speech.
    Homer

  14. The Odyssey

    Ulysses clapped his hands over Anticlus's mouth to keep him silent—what cruelty saved them inside the horse?
    Homer

  15. The Odyssey

    You have wasted my substance and courted my wife—now I return to pronounce your doom.
    Homer