Great Throughts Treasury

"A human being can go without food longer than he can go without human dignity."

"Reading is a joy, but not an unalloyed joy. Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting."

"The school is a place or institution for teaching and learning. Underneath this definition in every standard dictionary is another definition: School is a large number of fish of the same kind swimming together in the same direction."

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. "

"Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience."