Novel · Children's literatureHe saw clearly how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him, and the special value of some such anchorage in one's existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn his back on sun and air and all they offered him and creep home and stay there; the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to, this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome.Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows · 1908★ 6.9
Philosophical literatureNothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.Friedrich NietzscheEcce Homo · 1908★ 5.5
Play · Drama (play) · DramaAmerica is God's crucible, the great melting pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!Israel Zangwill1908★ 5.2
Short story"Nothing-so it seems to me," said the stranger, "is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life... The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of—of things longer."Jerome K. Jerome1908★ 5.0
Personal journalThere are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.Jules Renard1908★ 4.3
Short storyEternal Rest sounds comforting in the pulpit, too. Well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.Mark Twain1908★ 3.7
Religious literatureTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.G.K. ChestertonOrthodoxy · 1908★ 3.6
Novel · Children's literatureAfter all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows · 1908★ 3.6
NovelIn every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.Anatole France1908★ 3.5
EssayAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.G.K. Chesterton1908★ 3.5
Novel · Children's literatureBut Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows · 1908★ 3.5
Novel · Children's literatureSecrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows · 1908★ 3.5
Novel · Children's literatureSpring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows · 1908★ 3.5
Novel · Children's literatureWhen the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over, and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows · 1908★ 3.5
Novel · Children's literatureHere to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows · 1908★ 3.5
NovelLook at that sea, girls-all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.L.M. MontgomeryAnne of Green Gables · 1908★ 3.5
Religious literatureThe more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.G.K. ChestertonOrthodoxy · 1908★ 3.5
Essay · MagazineThe lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.John Burroughs1908★ 3.5
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