“The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.” WantGivingHumansHas BeensIdeasValuesPassionEnergyHistoryHuman NatureObjectsLettersInstitutionsPropertyActiveConsentRoman EmpireValue Of Money Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“My sons served excellent missions, and returned to participate in college athletics. In their letters home, and even now that they have been back for some time, they frequently mention that the experiences in the mission field were the choicest and most gratifying of their lives. You young men, begin to prepare yourselves now for this marvelous experience.” MenLifeHas BeensHomeYoungFieldsCollegeSonLettersMissionsPreparationExcellentYoung ManMy SonMarvelousAthletics Author:LaVell Edwards
“Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.” YearsHas BeensTwoAbleLastsLettersTwo YearsJournalDiariesArchivesCombs Author:Jonathan Dimbleby
“I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter of the alphabet! The manicule has been with us for a millennium! Thank you, Keith Houston, for bringing these little mysteries out of the shadows of typographic history.” LittlesHas BeensStuffMysteryTaughtShadowLettersItalianSuckerAlphabetMillenniumHoustonKeithSnailLetters Of The Alphabet Author:Constance Hale
“Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.” Has BeensDreamHellDevilLettersNewspapersArticlesSuggestionsInvitationsYellingBundlesDelugeKeep DreamingRoastingMailman Author:Albert Einstein
“To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.” YearsHas BeensStoriesReadingLinesLettersBoxesTreasureHuntingJournalFadedOld Letters Author:Sara Sheridan