Great Throughts Treasury

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another, without helping himself."

"The chiefest action for a man of spirit is never to be out of action; the soul was never put into the body to stand still."

"Detraction is the sworn friend to ignorance."

"The soul was never put in the body to stand still."

"Integrity of life is fame's best friend."

"We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry."

"There is not in nature a thing that makes a man so deform'd, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger."