Great Throughts Treasury

"One finger cannot kill a louse. - Kenya Proverb" -

"In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always." - Walter Savage Landor

"In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practised to love their neighbor." - Walter Savage Landor

"Years, many parti-colour’d years, some have crept on, and some have flown since first before me fell those tears I never could see fall alone. Years, not so many, are to come, years not so varied, when from you one more will fall: when, carried home, I see it not, nor hear Adieu." - Walter Savage Landor

"If the whole world's our home where we may run, up, friends, forsake those secondary schools which give grains, units, inches for the whole! If facts surpass mere words, melt pride of soul, And pain, and ignorance that hardens fools, here in the fire I've stolen from the Sun!" - Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella

"And the true and healthy Americanism is to be found, let us believe, in this attitude of hope; an attitude not necessarily connected with culture nor with the absence of culture, but with the consciousness of a new impulse given to all human progress. The most ignorant man may feel the full strength and heartiness of the American idea, and so may the most accomplished scholar. It is a matter of regret if thus far we have mainly had to look for our Americanism and our scholarship in very different quarters, and if it has been a rare delight to find the two in one." - Thomas Wentworth Higginson

"That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world." - Thomas Wentworth Higginson

"Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties" - Hugh Blair

"An eye like Mars, to threaten or command." -

"Misfortune does not always wait on vice; nor is success the constant guest of virtue." - William Havard

"Oh what man may hide inside, tho angel on the outward side." -

"So doth the greater glory dim the less: a substitute shines brightly as a king until a king be by." -

"O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!" - Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity." - Emile Zola