Great Throughts Treasury

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."

"The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see: and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid."

"We can endure neither our vices [evils] nor their cure."

"There is always more spirit in attack than in defence. "

"There is danger in delay. "

"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."