“She would not tell him the truth for some weeks, but she would eventually confess that she had left with him because… — Josiah Bancroft Boredom Copy Share Image
“Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more… — Josiah Bancroft Love Copy Share Image
“Senlin could easily tell which porters only became busy at his approach. The hardest workers moved slowly, deliberately, while the lazy appeared… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I’m glad your self-righteousness has given you some exercise, but you forget: we are not such a tidy, reasonable, and humane race.… — Josiah Bancroft Ethics Copy Share Image
“But that’s how it always is in the beginning. Learning starts with failure.” Iren” — Josiah Bancroft Education Copy Share Image
“I haven’t met many men who wouldn’t take advantage of a woman they shared a cage with.” Senlin waved the point away,… — Josiah Bancroft Human dignity Copy Share Image
“Never let a rigid itinerary discourage you from an unexpected adventure.” — Josiah Bancroft Adventure Copy Share Image
“Senlin marveled at how adept the human race was at injecting a sense of routine into peculiar environments; it seemed a certainty… — Josiah Bancroft Habits Copy Share Image
“Because they can keep us here forever, and I can’t stay here. Do you want to die like this? I don’t. I… — Josiah Bancroft Feet on the ground Copy Share Image
“He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete. The” — Josiah Bancroft Education Copy Share Image
“I am upset because we have pooled our human genius into the building of an elaborate Tower and have filled it up… — Josiah Bancroft Innovation Copy Share Image
“We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I… — Josiah Bancroft Books Copy Share Image
“With subjugation comes certainty. Liberty is full of gambles.” — Josiah Bancroft Freedom Copy Share Image
“It is better to be pleased by one’s own distastefulness than to please another man’s tastes,” — Josiah Bancroft Another man Copy Share Image
“The handkerchief is the universal utensil of the seasoned traveler. It can be a sanitizing device, a seat cover, a dust mask,… — Josiah Bancroft Travel Copy Share Image
“I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a… — Josiah Bancroft Astronomy Copy Share Image
“I’d rather be a nothing at the center of everything than a puffed-up somebody at the edge of it all.” — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
