Great Throughts Treasury

"For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else."

"For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill."

"Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it."

"Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other’s failings because they are his own."

"Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue."

"Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation"

"Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other."

"Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied."

"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life."

"Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence and invite corruption."

"Genius is but a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in a particular direction."

"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place."

"Gayety is to good humor, as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them."

"Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob."

"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."

"God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days."

"Gloomy calm of idle vacancy."

"Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood."

"Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners."

"Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people."

"Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great."

"Gratitude is a species of justice."

"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe."

"Great things cannot have escaped former observation."

"Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experiencing its contrary."

"Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else."

"Habitual cowardice usurps the soul."

"He has learned to no purpose, that is not able to teach."

"Happiness is not found in self-contemplation, it is perceived only when it is reflected from another."

"He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind."

"He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty."

"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."

"He left the name at which the world grew pale, to point a moral, or adorn a tale."

"He that embarks in the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many founder in their passage, while they lie waiting for the gale."

"He only confers favors generously who appears, when they are once conferred to remember them no more."

"He that has a home, and a family, has given hostages to the community for good citizenship, but he that has no such connecting interests, is exposed to temptation, to idleness, and in danger of becoming useless, if not a burden and a nuisance in society."

"He seldom lives frugally who lives by chance. Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of reveling today on the profits of to-morrow."

"He that has much to do will do something wrong."

"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."

"He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself. - We are commonly taught our duty by fear or shame, but how can they act upon a man who hears nothing but his own praises?"

"He that is extravagant will soon become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption."

"He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt."

"He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel."

"He that never thinks never can be wise."

"He that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literature of his own age."

"He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them."

"He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all the constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man."

"He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen"

"He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor."