Great Throughts Treasury

"He merits no thanks that does a kindness for his own end."

"He that eats till he is sick, must fast till he is well."

"He that follows Nature is never out of his Way."

"He that knows least commonly presumes most."

"He that listens after what people say of him shall never have peace."

"He that payeth beforehand shall have his work ill done."

"He that puts on a publick Gown, must put off a private Person."

"He that speaks, sows; he that hears, reaps."

"He that wants hope is the poorest man alive."

"He that would have the fruit must climb the tree."

"He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater."

"He whose belly is full believes not him whose is empty."

"He will be immortal who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault."

"Hearts may agree though Heads differ."

"If it were not for hope, the heart would break."

"If thou art a master, be sometimes blind, if a servant, sometimes deaf."

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it."

"If you steal for others, you shall be hanged [for] yourself."

"If you would have a good wife marry one who has been a good daughter."

"Ingratitude is the abridgment of all baseness, a fault never found unattended with other viciousness."

"It is best to be with those in time that we hope to be with in eternity."

"It is best to live as friends with those in time with whom we would be to all eternity."

"It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant."

"It matters not what Religion an ill Man is of."

"Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections."

"Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward."

"Law cannot persuade, where it cannot punish."

"Law governs Man, Reason the Law."

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost."

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"Let thy carriage be friendly, but not foolishly free; an unwary openness causeth contempt, but a little reservedness, respect; and handsome courtesy, kindness."

"Logic is the armory of reason."

"Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart."

"Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy soul: he'll be sure to aggravate thy adversity, and lessen thy prosperity. He goes always heavy loaded; and thou must bear half. He's never in a good humor; and may easily get into a bad one, and fall out with thee."

"Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy soul; he will be sure to aggravate thy adversity, and lessen your prosperity. He goes always heavy loaded; and thou must bear half. He is never in a good humor; and may easily get into a bad one, and fall out with thee."

"Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing."

"Men never think their fortune too great, nor their wit too little."

"Money makes not so many true Friends as real Enemies."

"Money, like dung, does not good till 'tis spread."

"Much Religion, but no Goodness."

"Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies."

"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."

"No Man is born wise or learned."

"No man who is fit to live need fear to die. To us here, death is the most terrible thing we know. But when we have tasted its reality, it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new creation of ourselves."

"Nothing costs so much as what is given us."

"Nothing is easy to the unwilling."

"One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun."

"Place not thine amendment only in increasing thy devotion, but in bettering thy life."

"Pleasure tasteth well after Service."

"Poor men's reason are not heard."