Thomas Hardy

I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through time to times anon,
And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.

The years-heired feature that can
In curve and voice and eye
Despise the human span
Of durance—that is I;
The eternal thing in man,
That heeds no call to die.

-- "Heredity" by Thomas Hardy

Alexander Hamilton

“It is uncertain whether it may ever be in my power to send you another line.... I am going into the army and perhaps ere long may be destined to seal with my blood the sentiments defended by my pen. Be it so, if heaven decree it. I was born to die and my reason and conscience tell me it is impossible to die in a better or more important cause.”

-- Alexander Hamilton

Hamilton was a pamphleteer propagandizing for the American cause while he was still a college student. He left his studies to seek military glory in the great revolution and distinguish himself more forcefully. This quote was taken from his last dispatch to his newspaper.

"On the Road"

In response to the media buzz over Kerouac's "On the Road", Kate Hakala shares that, although she appreciates the literary merits of the book, she is not that crazy about men who strongly identify with the work and make of it a map of their soul.

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