Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 1st Baron Burghley, also Lord William Cecil Burleigh

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend. He that payeth another man’s debt seeketh his own decay. But if thou canst not otherwise choose, rather lend the money thyself upon good bonds, although thou borrow it; so shalt thou secure thyself, and pleasure thy friend.

Debt | Friend | Good | Man | Money | Pleasure | Wisdom |

William Bliss Carman

To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

Good | Wisdom | Friends |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost cannot get again, and, if you cannot contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.

Better | Money | Wisdom |

Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné

Free inquiry, if restrained within due bounds, and applied to proper subjects, is a most important privilege of the human mind; and if well conducted, is one of the greatest friends to truth. But when reason knows neither its office nor its limits, and when employed on subjects foreign to its jurisdiction, it then becomes a privilege dangerous to be exercised.

Important | Inquiry | Mind | Office | Reason | Truth | Wisdom | Friends | Privilege |

Henry Chester

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

Enthusiasm | Influence | Money | Power | Wisdom | World |

Peter Cooper

I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

Business | Good | Life | Life | Money | Object | Wisdom | Business |

Thomas E. Dewey, fully Thomas Edmund Dewey

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

Life | Life | Man | Money | Office | Public | Wisdom |

Charles W. Eliot

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.

Books | Wisdom | Friends |

Diogenes Laërtius, aka "Diogenes the Cynic"

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs to be supplied with good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Good | Man | Self | Self-preservation | Wisdom | Friends |

Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.

Good | Money | Wisdom | Worth | Value |

Thomas Dreier

A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Man and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocket-book than to suffer from a poor soul.

Beauty | Better | Man | Money | Poverty | Soul | Wisdom | World |

Henry Ford

The hold which comptrollers of money are able to maintain on productive forces is seen to be more powerful when it is remembered that, although money is supposed to represent the real wealth of the world, there is always much more wealth that there is money, and real wealth is often compelled to wait upon money, thus leading to that most paradoxical situation - a world filled with wealth but suffering want.

Money | Suffering | Wealth | Wisdom | World |

Henry Ford

Money, after all, is extremely simple. It is a part of our transportation system. It is a simple and direct method of conveying goods from one person to another. Money is in itself most admirable. It is essential. It is not intrinsically evil. It is one of the most useful devices in social life, and when it does what it was intended to do, it is all help and no hindrance.

Evil | Life | Life | Method | Money | System | Wisdom |

Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Money | Opinion | Will | Wisdom |