Great Throughts Treasury

"Could make us feel that our faults were other people's."

"Could not, as the saying is, find a stone to throw at a dog."

"Could only by chance be caught in earnest about anything."

"Couldn't fire your revolver without bringing down a two volume."

"Crimson torch of a maple, kindled before its time."

"Crimson which stained the tops and steeps of snow."

"Critical vanity and self-righteousness."

"Criticism still remains behind all the other literary arts."

"Critics are in no sense the legislators of literature."

"Dawn upon him through a cloud of other half remembered faces."

"Death of the joy that ought to come from work."

"Death's vague conjectures to the broken expectations of life."

"Despair broke in laughter."

"Despised the avoidance of repetitions out of fear of tautology."

"Dickens is purely democratic."

"Dickens rescued Christmas from Puritan distrust"

"Did not feel the effect I would so willingly have experienced."

"Didn't reason about their beliefs, but only argued."

"Dinner was at the old-fashioned Boston hour of two."

"Disbeliever in punishments of all sorts."

"Disposition to use his friends."

"Do not want to know about such squalid lives."

"Dollars were of so much farther flight than now."

"Dull, cold self-absorption."

"Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world."

"Early self-helpfulness of children is very remarkable."

"Effort to do and say exactly the truth, and to find it out."

"Either to deny the substance of things unseen, or to affirm it."

"Encounter of old friends after the lapse of years."

"Enjoying whatever was amusing in the disadvantage to himself."

"Errors of a weak man, which were usually the basest."

"Escaped at night and got into the boy's dreams."

"Espoused the theory of Bacon's authorship of Shakespeare."

"Ethical sense, not the aesthetical sense."

"Even a day's rest is more than most people can bear."

"Everlasting rock of human credulity and folly"

"Everyone is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising if men were expected to rise for the sake of others, in America."

"Exchanging inaudible banalities."

"Express the appreciation of another's fit word."

"Eyes fixed steadfastly upon the future."

"Fact that it is hash many times warmed over that reassures them."

"Fate of a book is in the hands of the women."

"Fear of asking too much and the folly of asking too little."

"Feigned the gratitude which I could see that he expected."

"Felt that this was my misfortune more than my fault."

"Few men last over from one reform to another."

"Fictions subtle effect for good and for evil on the young."

"Flowers with which we garland our despair in that pitiless hour."

"For most people choice is a curse."

"Forbear the excesses of analysis."