Albigence Waldo: Diary, December 11-29, 1777 Mankind are never truly thankful for the Benefits of life, until they have experience’d the...

Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, Number 1: I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow...

Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, Number 1 These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will,...

no mortal existed now, nor would ever exist, who did not have a mixture of adversity in his life from the moment of his birth; indeed the...

As he looked out over the whole Hellespont, whose water was completely hidden by all his ships, and at all the shores and the plains of...

But so it is: we tribes of woeful humans never enter upon enjoyment with a sure foot, but always alongside our happiness marches some...

Furthermore, the institution of political groups and factions, and afterward of all evil practices, originated at Rome a few years before...

Cicero's advice to man who lost daughter: I am ashamed to write at greater length to you on this matter, lest I seem to doubt your good...

The excuse of “difficulty” is a cloak for our idleness. Quintilian. Quintilian, The Orator’s Education Books 1-2. Loeb Classical Library....