Quill / Authors
The people behind the old lines
29 writers with at least 15 lines in Quill, each line checked word for word against a public-domain book. Quill Originals and popular sayings never appear on these pages.
- Orison Swett Marden quotes
Pushing to the Front and Success magazine
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
Self-Reliance and American Transcendentalism
- Samuel Smiles quotes
Self-Help (1859)
- Seneca quotes
Of the Shortness of Life and Stoic moral essays
- Henry David Thoreau quotes
Walden (1854)
- William Shakespeare quotes
Hamlet, Macbeth and the rest of the plays
- Rabindranath Tagore quotes
Gitanjali and the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes
Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld quotes
The Maxims (1665)
- Marcus Aurelius quotes
The Meditations
- Michel de Montaigne quotes
The Essays (1580)
- Epictetus quotes
The Enchiridion and what is up to you
- Oscar Wilde quotes
The Importance of Being Earnest and De Profundis
- Dhammapada quotes
A verse collection from the Buddhist tradition
- Arthur Schopenhauer quotes
Philosophical pessimism
- Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes
The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment
- Thomas Carlyle quotes
On Heroes and The French Revolution
- Kahlil Gibran quotes
The Prophet (1923)
- Robert Louis Stevenson quotes
Treasure Island and Virginibus Puerisque
- Victor Hugo quotes
Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris
- Cicero quotes
On Friendship, On Old Age and his letters
- G. K. Chesterton quotes
Orthodoxy and the Father Brown stories
- George Eliot quotes
Middlemarch
- James Allen quotes
As a Man Thinketh (1903)
- Russell H. Conwell quotes
Acres of Diamonds and founding Temple University
- Leo Tolstoy quotes
War and Peace and Anna Karenina
- Charles Dickens quotes
David Copperfield and Bleak House
- Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
Thus Spake Zarathustra
- William James quotes
The Principles of Psychology and writing on habit