Great Throughts Treasury

"The divine Instructor is trustworthy, adorned as He is with three of the fairest ornament-knowledge, benevolence, and authority of utterance: with knowledge, for He is the paternal wisdom: 'All Wisdom is from the Lord, and with Him for evermore;' with authority of utterance, for He is God and Creator: 'For all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made;' and with benevolence, for He alone gave Himself a sacrifice for us." - Clement of Alexandria, originally Titus Flavius Clemens NULL

"Much can be done by law towards putting women on a footing of complete and entire equal rights with man - including the right to vote, the right to hold and use property, and the right to enter any profession she desires on the same terms as the man... Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly." - Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

"The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck." - Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

"There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright." - Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

"We know that self-government is difficult. We know that no people needs such high traits of character as that people which seeks to govern its affairs aright through the freely expressed will of the freemen who compose it. But we have faith that we shall not prove false to the memories of the men of the mighty past. They did their work, they left us the splendid heritage we now enjoy. We in our turn have an assured confidence that we shall be able to leave this heritage unwasted and enlarged to our children and our children's children. To do so we must show, not merely in great crises, but in the everyday affairs of life, the qualities of practical intelligence, of courage, of hardihood, and endurance, and above all the power of devotion to a lofty ideal, which made great the men who founded this Republic in the days of Washington, which made great the men who preserved this Republic in the days of Abraham Lincoln." - Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

"I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute." - Willem de Kooning

"But in one thing I would go beyond strict orthodoxy - I am a convinced universalist. I believe that in the end all men will be gathered into the love of God." - William Barclay

"We are trying to take it step by step because it's very, very difficult technology we are trying." - William Cohen, fully William Sebastian Cohen

"Be a Republican and sooner or later you will be a Postmaster." - Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

"All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins." - W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States." - W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

"The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination." - W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

"What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?" - W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

"Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood." - Virginia Satir

"Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person." - Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL

"Idle brains exaggerate matters; and cynics cause great social damage." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

"The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting. [Of London]" - V. S. Pritchett, fully Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett

"The word "miser," so often used as expressive of one who is grossly covetous and saving, in its origin signifies one that is miserable, the very etymology of the word thus indicating the necessary unhappiness of the miser spirit." - Tryon Edwards

"Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed" - Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.

"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools." - Thucydides NULL

"Voluntary action is at all times a resultant of the compounding of our impulsions with our inhibitions." - William James

"From hereon in all [temple] dining halls across the land will have an image of MañjuÅ›rÄ« placed especially on the head seat atop of Piṇḍola.” It also states, “Is is to forever be a permanent convention.” It is clearly understood that those who spent much time in that country and made no mention of this are, on the contrary, to be ashamed of studying abroad. Also, as to looking at outward appearances unaware of their contents – wouldn't it be better to take everything into account?" - Saichō NULL

"Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity." - Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key

"‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against society, that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship." - Emma Goldman

"Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us." - Emma Goldman

"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take." - Emma Goldman

"They divided the country into five metropolitan and four rural regions. Within these they also greatly extended many powers of governments of the local communities." - Ernest Callenbach

"Miss Mary, having been a journalist, had splendid powers of invention. I had never heard her tell a story in the same way twice and always had the feeling she was remolding it for the later editions." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"Of all lies, art is the least untrue." - Gustave Flaubert

"One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier." - Gustave Flaubert

"One event sometimes had infinite ramifications and could change the whole settings of a person's life." - Gustave Flaubert

"One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form." - Gustave Flaubert

"One ought to know everything, to write. All of us scribblers are monstrously ignorant. If only we weren?t lacking in stamina, what a rich field of ideas and similes we could tap! Books that have been the source of entire literatures, like Homer and Rabelais, contain the sum of all the knowledge of their times. They knew everything, those fellows, and we know nothing." - Gustave Flaubert

"The best way to get praise is to die." -

"And, Legolas, when the torches are kindled and men walk on the sandy floors under the echoing domes, ah! Then, Legolas, gems and crystals and veins of precious ore glint in the polished walls; and the light glows through folded marbles, shell-like, translucent as the living hands of Queen Galadriel. There are columns of white and saffron and dawn-rose, Legolas, fluted and twisted into dreamlike forms; they spring up from many-colored floors to meet the glistening pendants of the roof: wings, ropes, curtains fine as frozen clouds; spears, banners, pinnacles of suspended palaces! Still lakes mirror them: a glimmering world looks up from dark pools covered with clear glass; cities, such as the mind of Durin could scarce have imagined in his sleep, stretch on through avenues and pillared courts, on into the dark recesses where no light can come, And plink! A silver drop falls, and the round wrinkles in the glass make all the towers bend and waver like weeds and corals in a grotto of the sea. Then evening comes: they fade and twinkle out; the torches pass on into another chamber and another dream. There is chamber after chamber, Legolas; hall opening out of hall, dome after dome, stair beyond stair; and still the winding paths lead on into the mountains? heart. Caves! The Caverns of Helm?s Deep! Happy was the chance that drove me there! It makes me weep to leave them." -