The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Socrates
 (469-399 B.C., Greek philosopher of Athens)

*****
 

Plato

Plato
427?-347 B.C.

The Complete Works of Plato

(427?-347 B.C., Greek philosopher

*****
 

Aristotle
( 384-322 B.C., Greek philosopher

*****
 

Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
(1533-1592) French courtier and author

*****
 

Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616) English poet, dramatist, and actor

*****
 

Swedenborg
(1688-1772) Swedish philosopher

*****
 

Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832) German poet, novelist, playwright and natural philosopher

The Goethe Society of North America

*****
 

Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
(1770-1850) British poet

*****
 

Coleridge
(1772-1834) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
English lyrical poet,  critic, and philosopher

*****
 

Carlyle
(1795-1881)  Thomas Carlyle
Scottish historian and essayist

*****
 

Hawthorne                                    
(1804-1864) Nathaniel Hawthorne
American author and short story writer

*****
 

Margaret Fuller
(1810-1850) The first female foreign correspondent and the first book review editor in the U.S.A.

*****
 

Henry David Thoreau

Henry D. Thoreau
1817-1862

The Thoreau Society

The Thoreau Reader

(1817- 1862) American essayist, poet, 
and practical philosopher

*****
 

Whitman
(1819-1892) Walt Whitman
American poet, journalist and essayist
   Whitman Project