From "Remembrance" by Emily Bronte

But when the day of golden dreams had perished,
And even Despair was powerless to destroy,
Then did I learn hiw existence cold be cherished,
Strengthend, and fed without the aid of joy.


CARE JAPAN / Akira Lai / Raincity blue design

From "Candida: Act 1," by George Bernard Shaw

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it
than to consume wealth without producing it.



Happiness - Felicidad / felixion

From "Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, vol.Ⅳ" by Claude Bernard

Science increases our power in proportion as it lower our pride.


Wooden Sculpture of Science Genetics / epSos.de

From "Bequest to the Academic Youth Of Soviet Russia" by Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Never think that you already know all.
However highly you are appraised,
always have the courage to say to yourself
--- I am ignorant.


Ignorant / barbostick

By Aristotle from "Diogenes Laertius: Book Ⅴ"

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.


Truth-or-Dare Jenga / CarbonNYC

By Charles Ⅴ of France(Attributed)

I speak Spanish to God,
Italian to women,
French to men,
and German to my horse.


Big nose horse / Tambako the Jaguar

From "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" by Henry David Thoreau

It takes two to speak the truth --- one to speak,
and another to hear.


2006_06 bird / curran.kelleher

From the movie "Brief Encounter"

Life is a very dangerous business.
I mean, walking across the road is dangerous.


Lasercat displaces across the road / confluence

From the movie "Places in the Heart," originally the "Bible."

Love is patient, kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful.
Love never ends.


Love / Noël Zia Lee

From "Fragmenta Aurea: Of Thee, King Boy" by John Suckling

'Tis not the meat,
but 'tis the appetite
Makes eating a delight.


And eat it too! / hill.josh

From "And Even Now" by Max Beerborn

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of
that period would need a far less brilliant pen
than mine.


Hammer365: 070/295 Pen and Print / David Reber's Hammer Photography

From "The Rape of the Luck" by Alexander Pope

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things.


Kundgebung gegen Stuttgart 21 / GRÜNE Baden-Württemberg