Great Throughts Treasury

"To dally much with subject mean and low proves that the mind is weak, or makes it so."

"To follow foolish precedents, and wink with both our eyes, is easier than to think."

"To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob god of his honor, and is saying in effect that he has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of his own reach."

"To swear, to game, to drink, to show at home by lewdness, idleness, and Sabbath-breach, the great proficiency he made abroad, t' astonish and to grieve his gazing friends, to break some maiden's and his mother's heart, to be a pest where he was useful once. Are his sole aim, and all his glory now."

"To trace in Nature's most minute design the signature and stamp of power divine… The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, to whom an atom is an ample field."

"Toll for the brave— the brave! that are no more: all sunk beneath the wave, fast by their native shore."

"To-morrow is our wedding-day, and we will then repair unto the bell at edmonton, all in a chaise and pair."

"Transforms old print to zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes of gallery critics by a thousand arts."

"True charity, a plant divinely nurs'd."

"True modesty is a discerning grace and only blushes in the proper place; but counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: humility the parent of the first, the last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd."

"Truth is the golden girdle of the globe."

"Truths on which depend our main concern, that 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, shine by the side of every path we tread with such a lustre, he that runs may read."

"'Twere better to be born a stone of ruder shape, and feeling none, than with a tenderness like mine and sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! Condemn'd to dwell forever in my native shell, ordained to move when others please, not for my own content or ease; but toss'd and buffeted about, now in the water and now out."

"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing."

"United yet divided, twain at once: so sit two kings of Brentford on one throne."

"Unless a love of virtue light the flame, satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; he hides behind a magisterial air he own offences, and strips others' bare."

"Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom."

"Virtue and vice had boundaries in old time, not to be pass'd."

"Visits are unsatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing."

"War lays a burden on the reeling state, and peace does nothing to relieve the weight."

"War's a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at."

"We are his, To serve him nobly in the common cause, True to the death, but not to be his slaves."

"We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger."

"We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree."

"We perished, each alone: but I beneath a rougher sea, and whelmed in deeper gulfs than he."

"We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder clean; puts out our fires, and introduces hunger, frost, and woe, where peace and hospitality might reign."

"We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the dust shovel."

"We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too."

"What is it but a map of busy life, its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?"

"What is there in the vale of life half so delightful as a wife when friendship, love and peace combine to stamp the marriage bond divine?"

"What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void the world can never fill."

"What we admire we praise; and when we praise,advance it into notice, that its worth acknowledged, others may admire it too."

"When admirals extoll'd for standing still, of doing nothing with a deal of skill."

"When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! Why forbid the willing tears to flow?"

"When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits."

"When I think of my own native land, in a moment I seem to be there; but alas! recollection at hand soon hurries me back to despair."

"When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the church the leprosy begins."

"When one that holds communion with the skies has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, and once more mingles with us meaner things, 'tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings."

"When perjury, that heaven-defying vice, sells oaths by tale, and at the lowest price, stamps god's own name upon a lie just made, to turn a penny in the way of trade."

"When scandal has new-minted an old lie, or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'tis call'd a satire, and the world appears gathering around it with erected ears; a thousand names are toss'd into the crowd, some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud, just as the sapience of an author's brain, suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain."

"When the British warrior queen, bleeding from the Roman rods, sought, with an indignant mien, counsel of her country's gods."

"When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave."

"When was public virtue to be found where private was not? Can he love the whole who loves no part? He be a nation's friend, who is, in truth, the friend of no man there? Who slights the charities for whose dear sake, that country, if at all, must be beloved?"

"Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay."

"Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, and sweet colloquial pleasures are but few."

"Where tempests never beat nor billows roar."

"Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown."

"Which not even critics criticize."

"While fancy, like the finger of a clock, runs the great circuit, and is still at home."

"Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, the power of grace, the magic of a name."