Great Throughts Treasury

"Lust is a vice sooner condemned than banished."

"Waste is not grandeur."

"There is a grace in wild variety surpassing rule and order."

"There is a solemn luxury in grief."

"Vain is the hope by coloring to display, the bright effulgence of the noontide ray or paint the full-orb'd ruler of the skies with pencils dipt in dull terrestrial dyes."

"We know there oft is found an avarice in grief; and the wan eye of sorrow loves to gaze upon its secret hoard of treasured woes, and pine in solitude."

"With what a heavy and retarding weight does expectation load the wing of time."