Great Throughts Treasury

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William Godwin

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

Cause | Good | Justice | Love | Happiness |

William Godwin

Once annihilate the quackery of government, and the most homebred understanding might be strong enough to detect the artifices of the state juggler that would mislead him.

Better | Conduct | Consideration | Family | Father | Improvement | Justice | Justify | Life | Life | Lying | Magic | Man | Sense | Truth | Understanding | Will | Work | Worth | Vice |

William Godwin

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Art | Feelings | Friend | Heart | Justice | Kindness | Man | Object | Politics | Practice | Present | Reserve | Will | World | Art |

William James

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

Day | Despair | Doubt | Fear | Judgment | Men | Mortal | Reserve | Truth |

Douglas William Jerrold

O friendship! thou divinest alchemist, that man should ever profane thee!

Advice | Judgment | Man |

François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

For the credit of virtue it must be admitted that the greatest evils which befall mankind are caused by their crimes.

Fear | Justice | Love | Men | Suffering |

Drew Curtis

I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.

Argument | Giving | Guarantee | Judgment | Reality | Will |

William Shakespeare

O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet! Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords in our own proper entrails.

Art | Judgment | Men | Art |

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

Judgment | Light |

Elihu Root

War comes today as the result of one of three causes: either actual or threatened wrong by one country to another, or suspicion by one country that another intends to do it wrong ... or, from bitterness of feeling, dependent in no degree whatever upon substantial questions of difference. . . . The least of these three causes of war is actual injustice.

Brotherhood | Charity | Desire | Duty | Individual | Judgment | Love | Malice | People | Progress | Prosperity | Regard | Sentiment | Happiness |

Elihu Root

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

Justice |

Eli Pariser

This is a big moment. We're coming together from across the spectrum to protect the principles that are core to our identity as Americans.

Justice |

Elihu Root

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

Circumstances | Justice | Right | Sense |

Eli Pariser

Michael Brown taught us that vital national positions must be filled with qualified candidates, not political friends with little experience.

Justice | Rights |

Elihu Root

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

Government | Growth | Individual | Judgment | Practice | Reason | Government |

Elias Canetti

When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.

Experience | Justice | Knowledge | Language | Literature | Man | Men | Past | People | Rights | Story | Time | Words | Worth | Child |

Elihu Root

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

Conduct | Judgment | Men | World |

William Shakespeare

SEYTON: The Queen, my lord, is dead. MACBETH: She should have died hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word.— Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

Judgment |