Daily Quote Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. (Jean de La Bruyère) Poem of the Day 蛇 冯至 Beauty of Words Birth of Sister Tan Shih-hua

Daily Quote There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil – a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome. (Jane Austen) Poem of the Day Beginning By James Wright Beauty of Words Two Friends(2) Guy de Maupassant

Daily Quote To be beautiful and to be calm, without mental fear, is the ideal of Nature. (John Lubbock) Poem of the Day Maybe, Someday Yannis Ritsos Beauty of Words Two Friends(1) Guy de Maupassant

Daily Quote The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack. (Rudyard Kipling) Poem of the Day 关山月 李白 Beauty of Words The Philosopher (3) W.S. Maugham

Daily Quote Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. (Charles Dickens) Poem of the Day 赠别 舒婷 Beauty of Words Will O’ the Mill Robert Louis Steveson

Daily Quote Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. (Jean de La Bruyère) Poem of the Day A Word to Husbands Ogden Nash Beauty of Words The Philosopher (2) By W. Somerset Maugham

Daily Quote They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. (Andy Warhol) Poem of the Day 蛇 冯至 Beauty of Words The Philosopher (1) By W. Somerset Maugham

Daily Quote A happy life consists in the tranquility of mind. (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Poem of the Day I Took One Draught of Life Emily Dickinson Beauty of Words Birth of Sister Tan Shih-hua

Daily Quote A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.’ (Leo Tolstoy) Poem of the Day Musée des Beaux Arts W.H. Auden Beauty of Words The Spectacles By Edgar Allan Poe

Daily Quote Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. (Charles Dickens) Poem of the Day 秋思 陆游 Beauty of Words The Durable Satisfactions of Life Charles W. Eliot

Daily Quote Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements. (Henry David Thoreau) Poem of the Day 赠别 舒婷 Beauty of Words Will O’ the Mill Robert Louis Steveson

Daily Quote All the years that have passed have not dimmed my memory of that first glorious autumn. (Willa Cather) Poem of the Day 秋凉晚步 杨万里 Beauty of Words The Pleasures of Ignorance By Robert Lynd