Great Throughts Treasury

"Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em."

"Labor brings a thing nearer the hearts core."

"Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions."

"The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past."

"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path."

"Friday's data clearly indicate that U.S. manufacturing may not be quite at a bottom. The weakness is led by computers and electronic equipment, but other categories are weak also."

"I love you already, and if these things be done in the dry tree, what shall be done in the green?"

"Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best."

"I do believe all shall be well with you, Prue. It's come to my heart as soft as dew, and as sweet as a red rose, that you'll get love as well as give it. After my time, though, after my time. But no matter for that, so I do know it's to come."

"It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening."

"I only wanted to know, Prue. I be getting ancient and old, and the time draws nigh when life'll be a burden. I'd lief know as there was good in store for the best girl ever."

"On the highest point of the bare opposite ridge, now curtained in driving storm-cloud, towered in gigantic aloofness a mass of quartzite blackened and hardened by uncountable ages?Flat, white stones lay about? like tombstones with no name, no date, no word of hope, fit for the nameless, dateless dead, beasts and men, who had gone into the silence of annihilation."

"It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss."

"To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi"

"The divine egoism that is genius."

"We are all as full of echoes as a rocky wood--echoes of the past, reflex echoes of the future, and echoes of the soil (these last reverberating through our filmiest dreams, like the sound of thunder in a blossoming orchard)."

"We are tomorrow's past."

"We've had many other instances in history where (governments) had to re-jig expenditures to make sure that they stayed on course. That may be the scenario they're facing this spring,"

"You wasn't made like watch-dogs and house-cats and cows. You was made a fox, and you be a fox, and its queer-like to me, Foxy, as folk canna see that. They expect you to be what you wanna made to be. You'm made to be a fox; and when you'm busy being a fox they say you'm a sinner!"

"We turn away [nursing] students every year because we don't have enough faculty."