Daniel Coenn: 168 books

This book is a collection of 198 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Leo Tolstoy. It grants his reflections on subjects ranging from Love to God: "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its...

This book is a collection of 250 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Francis Bacon: "God's first creature was light." "It is impossible to love and to be wise." "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."...

This book is a collection of 62 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Alexander Hamilton: "Learn to think continentally." "I think the first duty of society is justice." "I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect men." "Even to observe neutrality you must...

This book is a collection of 205 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Woodrow Wilson: "I would … rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than triumph in a cause that I know some day will lose." "I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation...

This book is a collection of 80 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Anne Bronte: "There is always a "but" in this imperfect world." "You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike." "Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally...

Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers. This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Peter Paul Rubens masterpieces, date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted...

Nikolai Ge was a Russian realist painter famous for his works on historical and religious motifs. He was born to a Russian noble family of French origin; his grandfather immigrated to Russia in the 18th century. Nikolai graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg in 1857 with a gold...

This book is a collection of 65 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Frederick Douglass: "Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude." "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."...

This book is a collection of 128 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Robert Browning: "It is the glory and good of Art that Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth,—to mouths like mine, at least." "I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be." "I...

This book is a collection of 220 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Benjamin Franklin. It grants his reflections on subjects ranging from reading and writing something worth to Art of Life: "If you're going through hell, keep going." "There never was a good knife made of bad steel."...

This book is a collection of 223 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Ralph Waldo Emerson: "My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady."...

Lovis Corinth, whose real name is Franz Heinrich Louis Corinth, was a German painter and printmaker, one of the most important representatives of German Impressionism and Expressionism. Corinth's oeuvre includes more than 100 paintings and several books and essays on painting. Today Corinth is regarded...

This book is a collection of 73 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." "Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion." "And to every action...

This book is a collection of 280 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Blaise Pascal: "You always admire what you really don't understand." "All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room." "Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the...