Selected Essays

Among the numerous literary works titled Selected Essays are the following:

  • Selected Essays (Frederick Douglass) by Frederick Douglass
  • Selected Essays (T. S. Eliot) by T. S. Eliot
  • Selected Essays (William Troy) by William Troy

Famous quotes containing the words selected and/or essays:

    She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice apple and delivered it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself when it came without sin through virtuous effort. And while she closed with a Scriptural flourish, he “hooked” a doughnut.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)