European Ancient Wisdom
Journey through the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods, where European thinkers revolutionized science, art, and philosophy.
An Ungallant Reply
A lady of an irascible temper asked George Selwyn why woman was made out of the rib of man. “Indeed, I can’t say,” was his reply, “except it be that the rib is the most crooked part of the body.
Curious Fact
‘Yang Chau’ once remarked to the King of ‘Liang’, “It is as easy to govern the world as to turn the palm of your hand.” The King, however, retorted, “Sir, you have a wife and concubine, yet struggle to manage them. Your three-acre garden remains overrun with weeds. How can you claim that governing the world is as simple as turning one’s palm?”
The Modesty of Greatness
There is, among the records of Newton, a sentence in the spirit of ‘Shakspeare’ : —”I don’t know what I may seem to the world ; but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell, than ordinary, whilst the great Ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me.