Great Throughts Treasury

"The multitude is always in the wrong."

"What you keep by you, you may change and mend; but words, once spoken, can never be recalled."

"Immodest words admit no defence, for want of decency is want of sense."

"And choose an author as you choose a friend."

"My God, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me at my end."

"Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express with painful care, but seeming easiness; for truth shines brightest thro? the plainest dress."

"A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once."

"Beware what spirit rages in your breast; for one inspired, ten thousand are possessed."

"Constant quiet fills my peaceful breast with unmixed joy."

"Clouds dissolved the thirsty ground supply."

"But words once spoke can never be recall?d."

"Choose an author as you would a friend."

"I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse."

"Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul."

"Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment."

"Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults."

"Men still had faults, and men will have them still; he that hath none, and lives as angels do, must be an angel."

"Often try what weight you can support, and what your shoulders are too weak to bear."

"Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays."

"Sound judgment is the ground of writing well."

"Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought."

"Praise Him, each savage furious beast that on His stores do daily feast; and you tame slaves, of the laborious plough, your weary knees to your Creator bow."

"The first great work (a task performed by few) is that yourself may to yourself be true."

"Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, will be of serious consequence to you, when they have made you once ridiculous."

"The last loud trumpet?s wondrous sound, shall thro? the rending tombs rebound, and wake the nations underground."

"The press, the pulpit, and the stage, conspire to censure and expose our age."

"The men, who labor and digest things most, will be much apter to despond than boast; for if your author be profoundly good, ?twill cost you dear before he?s understood."

"Thou whom avenging pow?rs obey, cancel my debt (too great to pay) before the sad accounting day."

"True friends appear less moved than counterfeit."

"Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed."

"Words once spoke can never be recall'd."

"You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy."

"You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility."

"Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece."

"We weep and laugh, as we see others do."

"Want of decency is want of sense."

"Whatsoever contradicts my sense, I hate to see, and never can believe."