This painting, by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, (c. 1798-1863), draws its inspiration from a poem called Gerusalemme liberata, written by the Italian poet,...
Greek settlers from the city of Phocaea colonized southern France, founding the city of Massilia (modern Marseilles) in 600 BCE or earlier. Folklore, legend...
The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)
"The person who is harmonious amid the hostile,
peaceful amid the violent,
free from grasping amid the greedy,
that one I call...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."
From The Sign of the Four (Chapter 1),...
Jonathan Swift (c. 1667-1745)
"I dare engage, these creatures have their titles and distinctions of honour; they contrive little nests and burrows, that they call...
This painting was created by the American artist, Tompkins Harrison Matteson (c. 1813–1884), and is housed within the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts....
Hávamál (Sayings of the High One), an old poem which was preserved in the 13th-century Poetic Edda
"Cattle die,
kin die
self dies too;
a good name,
if you get one,
goes...
Erasmus (c. 1466-1536)
"There are no vices that are more dangerous than those that have the veneer of virtue."
From 'Inner Faith Is Better Than Mere...
Sir Winston Churchill (c. 1874-1965)
"Never till now were great communities afforded such ample means of measuring their approaching agony. Never have they seemed less...
