"What is the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on."
Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
Friday, 12 October 2012
Rhetorical un-question
"What is the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on."
Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Options for the truth
"Between truth and the search for truth, I opt for the second."
Bernard Berenson, art historian (1865-1959)
Sunday, 7 October 2012
Saturday, 6 October 2012
What we teachers secretly hope for
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
Henry Adams, historian and teacher (1838-1918)
Friday, 5 October 2012
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Point de fuite
"In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away."
T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Enough time
"I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die."
William Wiley, artist (b. 1937)
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