Ribbons of Light

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog - by Caspar David Friedrich " Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neig...

A Good Book by Wybrand Hendriks "It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of lit...

Woman Writing a Letter , by Gerard ter Borch ‘You should write a novel. The regular resource of people who don’t go enough into the world t...

I thought I'd share a few wonderful quotes (well, I like them!) that I've found as I've been reading Little Dorrit. . . ~~~~~ [F...

Kate Beckinsale as Flora Poste in the 1995 adaptation of Cold Comfort Farm Flora pounced on some books which lay on the broad window-sill ....

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house ...

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from t...

"To dare is to lose one step for but a moment, not to dare is to lose oneself forever" - Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark in a l...

Look to this day . . . for yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision . . . but today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream...

Whatever it be that keeps the finer faculties of the mind awake, wonder alive, and the interest above mere eating and drinking, money-making...