Great Throughts Treasury

"Music was a thing of the soul; a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea; a strange bird singing the songs of another shore."

"No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life. "

"Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress, as price of opinion; while nothing is so foolish and baseless. "

"Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. "

"Perfect love holds the secret of the world’s perfect liberty. "

"Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but it has as legitimate a place as prayer. "

"The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other’s rights, and invade the field of each other’s liberty."

"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart. "

"The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day’s labor, and beckons us to its bosom; and life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides us from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansion prepared for us. "

"Want keeps pace with wealth always. "

"We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation - have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it."

"Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people’s wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride? "