Brevia

by Helps, Arthur Sir

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

Way to wealth

by Benjamin Franklin

Institutio Christianae religionis

by Jean Calvin

From those matters so far discussed, we clearly see how destitute and devoid of all good things man is, and how he lacks...

Idylls of the King

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Familiar quotations; a collection of passages, phrases, and ...

by John Bartlett

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:

گُلِستان

by Saʻdī.

Jonathan's apothegms

by Rhoades, John Harsen

Bed of Procrustes

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Maximes

by François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stuart D. Warner

I AM of medium height, well set-up and proportioned, my complexion dark but fairly uniform; my forehead is lofty and rea...

Sand and foam

by Kahlil Gibran

Aphorisms on Love and Hate

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Vepʻxistqaosani

by Shota Rustaveli

Aphorisms

by Peter Taylor

City aphorisms

by Mason Cooley

Sand and foam

by Kahlil Gibran

The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

by Eric Hoffer

Aphorisms

by Philip Anthony Spalding

Aphorisms and other observations

by Joseph Prescott

Aphorisms

by Tubman, William V. S. Pres. Liberia