Great Throughts Treasury

"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."

"So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return."

"The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased."

"The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite."

"The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical."

"The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last."

"The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters."

"The worst inconvenience of a small fortune is that it will not admit of inadvertency."

"There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy."

"There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason."

"They [liars] begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth appear like falsehood."

"True honor is to honesty what the Court of Chancery is to common law."

"We hate those faults most in others which we are guilty of ourselves."

"Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round, where'er his stages may have been, may sigh to think he still has found the warmest welcome, at an inn."

"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."