Coffee Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...printing and the proliferation of written materials allowed ordinary people to be members of any number of relational communities.”

— Wendy Griswold

“how a people who had raised such mighty works, could have allowed themselves to be conquered by illiterate barbarians.”

— Ross Laidlaw

“Minor segments of earlier history may have been rescued or 'retrieved' -- e.g. Greek 'democracy,' Aristotle, the Magna Carta, etc. -- but these remain…

— Wael B. Hallaq

“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their congressmen, countries try to believe in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

— Tony Benn

“As a result, these societies became surprisingly passive and reticent. Newspaper men were harder to manage, but seemed largely to coöperate with the government…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought

— Bernard Bailyn

“To prevent becoming overwhelmed by the world around us, we must, as the ancients practiced, learn how to limit our passions and their control…

— Ryan Holiday

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders…

— Anonymous

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush…

— Antony Gormley