Great Throughts Treasury

"Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass."

"Gold is the most cowardly and treacherous of all metals. It makes no treaty that it does not break. It has no friend whom it does not sooner or later betray."

"In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. "

"Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment."