Voices

Authors & sources

Every poet, philosopher, scripture, and tradition with two or more lines in the library. Open one to read all of their words here.

• 1 Corinthians (Pauline tradition) 1st century CE · Corinth / early Christian Mediterranean 3 quotes
• 1 John (KJV) 1st century CE · Ephesus tradition, ancient Asia Minor 4 quotes
• 2 Corinthians (Pauline tradition, KJV) 1st century CE · Corinth, ancient Greece 5 quotes
• Alexander Pope 18th century · London, England 2 quotes
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson Victorian · Lincolnshire / Isle of Wight, England 7 quotes
• Ambrose Bierce 19th–early 20th century · Meigs County, Ohio / San Francisco, California, USA 2 quotes
• Aristotle Classical antiquity · Athens / Stagira, ancient Greece 3 quotes
• Benjamin Disraeli 19th century · London, England 2 quotes
• Benjamin Franklin 18th century · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 3 quotes
• Bhagavad Gita Classical Sanskrit / PD English (Arnold) · Ancient India (Kurukshetra tradition) 49 quotes
• Book of Joshua (biblical) Ancient Near East · Ancient Canaan / Judea 2 quotes
• Booker T. Washington 19th–20th century · Tuskegee, Alabama, USA 2 quotes
• Charles Dickens 19th century · London, England 10 quotes
• Charles Spurgeon 19th century · London, England 2 quotes
• Charlotte Brontë 19th century · Haworth, Yorkshire, England 3 quotes
• Chinese proverb Traditional · China (traditional) 6 quotes
• Christina Rossetti Victorian · London, England 3 quotes
• Cicero Classical antiquity · Rome, ancient Italy 3 quotes
• Confucius Classical antiquity · Qufu, Shandong (ancient Lu), China 22 quotes
• Dante Alighieri Medieval · Florence, Italy 2 quotes
• Dhammapada (Max Müller) Ancient / 1881 English · Ancient India (Pali Buddhist tradition) 52 quotes
• Ecclesiastes (JPS 1917) Ancient Near East · Jerusalem, ancient Judah 5 quotes
• Edward Lear 19th century · Holloway, London, England / San Remo, Italy 2 quotes
• Emily Dickinson 19th century · Amherst, Massachusetts, USA 11 quotes
• English proverb Traditional · England (traditional) 4 quotes
• Epictetus Classical antiquity · Hierapolis / Nicopolis (Roman Greece) 34 quotes
• G. K. Chesterton Modern · London, England 6 quotes
• Galatians (Pauline tradition, KJV) 1st century CE · Galatia, ancient Asia Minor 3 quotes
• George Eliot 19th century · Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England 2 quotes
• George Herbert 17th century · Bemerton / Wiltshire, England 2 quotes
• Gospel of John (biblical) 1st century CE · Eastern Mediterranean (early Christian tradition) 9 quotes
• Gospel of Luke (KJV) 1st century CE · Eastern Mediterranean (Lukan tradition) 4 quotes
• Gospel of Matthew (KJV) 1st century CE · Galilee / ancient Judea 15 quotes
• Hebrew Psalms (biblical tradition) Ancient Near East · Jerusalem / ancient Judea 5 quotes
• Hebrews (KJV) 1st century CE · Early Christian Mediterranean (anonymous letter) 4 quotes
• Helen Keller 20th century · Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA 4 quotes
• Henry David Thoreau 19th century · Concord, Massachusetts, USA 18 quotes
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 19th century · Portland, Maine / Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 18 quotes
• Isaiah (JPS 1917) 8th–6th century BCE tradition · Jerusalem / ancient Judah 14 quotes
• James (KJV) 1st century CE · Jerusalem 2 quotes
• Jane Austen Regency · Hampshire, England 5 quotes
• Japanese proverb Traditional · Japan (traditional) 3 quotes
• Jerome K. Jerome Late 19th–early 20th century · Walsall / London, England 6 quotes
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 18th–19th century · Weimar, Germany 6 quotes
• John Keats Romantic era · London / Rome 2 quotes
• Julian of Norwich Medieval · Norwich, England 3 quotes
• Kabir (Tagore) 15th century · Varanasi, India 5 quotes
• Kahlil Gibran Modern · Bsharri, Lebanon / New York 2 quotes
• Lamentations (JPS 1917) 6th century BCE tradition · Jerusalem 2 quotes
• Lao Tzu Classical antiquity · Ancient China (Zhou tradition) 13 quotes
• Latin proverb Traditional · Rome / Latin West (traditional) 2 quotes
• Lewis Carroll 19th century · Christ Church, Oxford, England 6 quotes
• Louisa May Alcott 19th century · Concord, Massachusetts, USA 3 quotes
• Marcus Aurelius Classical antiquity · Rome, ancient Italy 50 quotes
• Mark Twain 19th–20th century · Hannibal, Missouri / Hartford, Connecticut, USA 18 quotes
• Micah (JPS 1917) 8th century BCE tradition · Moresheth / Jerusalem, ancient Judah 2 quotes
• Michel de Montaigne Renaissance · Château de Montaigne, Dordogne, France 2 quotes
• Michelangelo Renaissance · Florence / Rome, Italy 2 quotes
• Native American proverb (traditional) Traditional · Indigenous North America (traditional) 2 quotes
• Oscar Wilde 19th century · Dublin, Ireland 11 quotes
• Pauline letters (King James Version) 1st century CE · Rome / the early churches of the Mediterranean 6 quotes
• Philippians (Pauline tradition) 1st century CE · Philippi / early Christian Mediterranean 4 quotes
• Pirke Avot (Sayings of the Fathers) Mishnah (compiled c. 200 CE) / 1913 English · Land of Israel (Mishnah, Galilee) 5 quotes
• Plato Classical antiquity · Athens, ancient Greece 3 quotes
• Plutarch Classical antiquity · Chaeronea, Boeotia (Greece) 2 quotes
• Proverbs (JPS 1917) Ancient Near East · Jerusalem / ancient Israel 11 quotes
• Psalms (JPS 1917) Ancient Near East · Jerusalem / ancient Judea 31 quotes
• Qur’an (Rodwell English) 7th century CE · Mecca / Medina (Qur’anic revelation) 61 quotes
• Rabindranath Tagore Modern · Kolkata (Calcutta), India 31 quotes
• Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th century · Concord, Massachusetts, USA 24 quotes
• Robert Browning 19th century · London / Florence 3 quotes
• Robert Frost 20th century · New England, USA 3 quotes
• Robert Louis Stevenson Victorian · Edinburgh, Scotland 2 quotes
• Romans (Pauline tradition, KJV) 1st century CE · Rome (letter) / Corinth (writing tradition) 9 quotes
• Rudyard Kipling Late 19th–early 20th century · Bombay (Mumbai), India / England 3 quotes
• Samuel Johnson 18th century · London, England 2 quotes
• Seneca Classical antiquity · Rome / Córdoba (Hispanian roots) 32 quotes
• Socrates Classical antiquity · Athens, ancient Greece 2 quotes
• Spanish proverb Traditional · Spain (traditional) 2 quotes
• The Gospel of Buddha (Paul Carus) 1894 English compilation · Near Varanasi (Sarnath), India 3 quotes
• The Light of Asia (Edwin Arnold) 1879 English verse · Bodh Gaya, India (setting) 2 quotes
• The Right Words Movement 21st century · Canadian-rooted brand origin (Toronto area) 98 quotes
• Theodore Roosevelt Modern · New York / Oyster Bay, USA 2 quotes
• Traditional Buddhist saying Traditional · South Asia / Buddhist world (traditional) 3 quotes
• Traditional proverb Traditional · Shared folk traditions (approximate) 7 quotes
• Traditional saying Traditional · Shared folk traditions (approximate) 12 quotes
• Upanishads (Paramananda English) Ancient / 1919 English · Ancient India (Upanishadic tradition) 6 quotes
• Victor Hugo 19th century · Paris, France 3 quotes
• Virgil Classical antiquity · Mantua / Rome, ancient Italy 2 quotes
• Walt Whitman 19th century · Brooklyn / Long Island, New York, USA 25 quotes
• William Blake Romantic era · London, England 6 quotes
• William Ernest Henley Victorian / Edwardian · Gloucester / London, England 2 quotes
• William Shakespeare Elizabethan / Jacobean · Stratford-upon-Avon / London, England 34 quotes
• William Wordsworth Romantic era · Lake District, England 4 quotes