Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri
In the middle of the journey of our life
I found myself astray in a dark wood
where the straight road had been lost sight of. – Dante Alighieri

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri
In the middle of the journey of our life
I found myself astray in a dark wood
where the straight road had been lost sight of. – Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. – Dante Alighieri
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, – to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. – John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones