Reaction to Rejection

"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure."
— Chinese proverb*

Frog bookplate by Zhang Fen Quan
Via Washington Printmakers

*Via The Routledge Book of World Proverbs, by Jon R. Stone

A Pocket Garden

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
-Chinese proverb

Artwork by Andy English, 2006

Pleasant Words

"Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones."
-Proverbs 16:24

Bookplate courtesy Ruby Victoria