It is delightful to transport

It is delightful to transport

one’s self into the spirit of the past,

to see how a wise man has thought before us,

and to what glorious height we have at last reached.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  -

Time is of no account

Time is of no

account with great thoughts,

which are as fresh today as when

they first passed through their authors’ minds ages ago.

- Samuel Smiles -

A well cultivated mind is

A well-cultivated mind is,

so to speak, made up of all the

minds of preceding ages; it is only

one single mind which has been educated during all this time.

- Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle -

Always have a book at hand

Always have a book at hand,

in the parlor, on the table, for the family;

a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote,

of sound maxims and truthful apothegms.

It will impress on your own mind a thousand

valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand

lessons of truth and duty.

Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

- Tryon Edwards -

The people are unreal

The people are unreal.

The flowers are unreal, they don’t smell.

The food is unreal, it doesn’t taste of anything.

The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built up in the desert.

- Ethel Barrymore -

We can catch buses and count

We can catch buses

and count our change and

cross the roads and talk real sentences.

But our innocence goes awfully deep,

and our discreditable secret is that we

don’t know anything at all, and our horrid

inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.

-Dylan Thomas -

October is a fine and dangerous season

October is a fine and dangerous season

in America…a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

-Thomas Merton -

Helped are those

Helped are those

who create anything at all,

for they shall relive the thrill of

their own conception and realize a partnership

in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

-Alice Walker -

When the green woods laugh

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

-Lord -

There’s something intrinsically

There’s something intrinsically

therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide,

open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
- Charles Rosin -