Great Throughts Treasury

"Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

"A little man often cast a long shadow. "

"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. "

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. "

"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. "

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. "

"I have two doctors - my left leg and my right leg"

"If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt."

"Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out."

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

"The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers."

"One half who graduate from college never read another book."

"Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge."