Aphorisms

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus L. Frank Baum – Every child knows about Santa Claus, the jolly man who brings gifts to all on Christmas. There are many stories that tell of his life, but the d …

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult – Joseph Bédier – The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy. The tragic story is of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Trist …

Carry On, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse – Carry On, Jeeves is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 9 October 1925 by Herbert Jenkins, London, …

Master and Man Leo Tolstoy – In this short story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the owner of a forest. He …

Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton – ‘Bunner Sisters, ‘ written in 1892 but not published until 1916 in Xingu and Other Stories, takes place in a shabby neighborhood in New York City. The two Bunner sister …

The Categories Aristotle – Categories is a text from Aristotle’s Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition. They are considere …

No Name Wilkie Collins – Magdalen and her sister Norah, beloved daughters of Mr and Mrs Vanstone, find themselves the victims of a catastrophic oversight. Their father has neglected to change his wil …

Zadig Or, The Book of Fate Voltaire – Zadig; or, The Book of Fate (French: Zadig ou la Destinée; 1747) is a novella and work of philosophical fiction by the Enlightenment writer Voltaire. It tells th …

The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism. This ancient book is also central in Chinese r …

The name of a Persian poet and thinker of the twelfth century, Omar Khayyam is well known to everyone. His quatrains rubaiyat have a special place in a world culture treasury. Everybody who loves to …