NovelThere is a weird power in a spoken word... And a word carries far—very far—deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.Joseph ConradLord Jim · 1900★ 5.5
In life, as in a foot-ball game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!Theodore Roosevelt1900★ 5.4
Autobiography and memoirThe best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.Booker T. Washington1900★ 3.8
Autobiography and memoirNo race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.Booker T. WashingtonUp from Slavery · 1900★ 3.8
SociologyThe problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.W.E.B. Du Bois1900★ 3.8
MagazineTruth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.John Churton Collins1900★ 3.5
EssayEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.Leo Tolstoy1900★ 2.0
Speech · Political speechNo written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.Carrie Chapman Catt1900★ 1.9
Religious literature · Philosophical literatureIt is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.John Burroughs1900★ 1.8
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