Great Throughts Treasury

"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."

"To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born."

"He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves."

"The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself."

"Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed."