PoemTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I –– I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.Robert FrostThe Road Not Taken · 1916★ 9.5
Short storyI'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.Jack London1916★ 6.9
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.Jack London1916★ 6.7
PoemI have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the air.Alan Seeger1916★ 5.1
PoemBreathless, we flung us on the windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.Rupert Brooke1916★ 5.1
Speech · Political speechAmerica cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.Woodrow Wilson1916★ 3.7
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.H.L. Mencken1916★ 3.5
PoemThe fog comes On little cat feet. It sits looking Over harbour and city On silent haunches And then moves on.Carl Sandburg1916★ 3.5
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.George Moore1916★ 3.5
PoemChrist of his gentleness Thirsting and hungering, Walked in the wilderness; Soft words of grace He spoke Unto lost desert-folk That listened wondering.Robert Graves1916★ 3.5
Speech · Political speechDemocracy is not tearing down; it is a building up. It is not denial of the divine right of Kings; it supplements that claim with the assertion of the divine right of all men. It does not destroy; it fulfills. It is the consummation of all theories of government, to the spirit of which all the nations of the Earth must yield. It is the great constructive course of the ages.Calvin Coolidge1916★ 3.5
Courtroom speech · SpeechSelf-government is our right, a thing born in us at birth, a thing no more to be doled out to us, or withheld from us, by another people than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers, or to love our kind.Roger Casement1916★ 3.4
PoemTo an open house in the evening Home shall men come, To an older place than Eden And a taller town than Rome.G.K. Chesterton1916★ 1.9
Short storyWhat with excellent browsing and sluicing and cheery conversation and what-not, the afternoon passed quite happily.P.G. Wodehouse1916★ 1.9
Summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James1916★ 1.0
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