Great Throughts Treasury

"There was silence deep as death, and the boldest held his breath for a time."

"This was not the very finest quality of weaving with gold thread, of the kind that was being produced for the leading courts of the day by the Brussels workshops. Rather, it reflects the sort of medium-quality tapestries that the Florence workshops were producing at this time for use in the Medici palaces. Still, the pride they must have felt, knowing this would be destined to go to Como. Tapestry was such an important part of the theatrical presentation of the day. It was the whole stage set against which the formal side of life was acted out."

"Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before."

"To bear is to conquer our fate."

"To prevail in the cause that is dearer than life, or, crush'd in its ruins, to die!"

"To-morrow let us do or die."

"Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art."

"Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man."

"'Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, and in their deaths had not divided been."

"United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars."

"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan."

"We don't know what we have here. There might be something."

"We had him stopped when he left the house... Then we went to the home."

"What loved little islands, twice seen in their lakes, can the wild water-lily restore."

"What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod its Maker mean'd not should be trod by man, the image of his God, erect and free, unscourged by Superstition's rod."

"When the stormy winds do blow; when the battle rages loud and long, and the stormy winds do blow."

"While memory watches o'er the sad review of joys that faded like the morning dew."

"What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science."

"What though my winged hours of bliss have been like angel visits, few and far between."

"When love came first to earth, the Spring spread rose-beds to receive him."

"Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?—a world without a sun."

"Ye are brothers, ye are men, and we conquer but to save."

"Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you, for ye waft me to summers of old, when the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight, and when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight, like treasures of silver and gold."

"Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!"

"Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky."

"Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day,spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay."

"Without our hopes, without our fears, without the home that plighted love endears, without the smiles from plighted beauty won, oh! what were man? - a world without a sun."

"While the battle rages loud and long, and the stormy winds do blow."

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