Great Throughts Treasury

"The indelicate hand of necessity is forever leaving its fingerprints on the fragile crystal of dreams."

"Great music is a flame that lights the tapers of man's noblest thoughts and drives shadows from the corridors of his soul."

"A way to weigh words is to keep them in the heart until they are gentle and until the lips will speak them softly."

"Modern science is still trying to produce a tranquilizer more effective than a few kind words."