Great Throughts Treasury

"A noble, courageous man is recognizable by the patience he shows in adversity."

"Envy is a worm that gnaws and consumes the entrails of ambitious men."

"Governors must never forget that he who is unable to run his own house and family is still less competent to be entrusted with public matters."

"Lost in memories of urban decay, we are leaving behind our gluttonous ways and singing songs into the eternal sky even as we wander the world alone, carrying flags of fathers who never loved us billowing over our shoulders, like new angels soaring into heaven wings thrown earthward feeling the company of all of us- pioneers of solitude- even as we wander the world alone."

"I was born as a flower of the field, As a flower I was cherished in my youth, I came to my full age, I grew old, Now I am withered and die."