Great Throughts Treasury

"To be forbearing to all - that is love; to be relentless toward self - that is wisdom; to be content with what one has - that is riches; to be discontented with what one is - that is piety."

"To crave more than you need - that is poverty."

"To seek virtue for the sake of reward is to dig for iron with a spade of gold."

"True progress consists not so much in increasing our needs as in diminishing our wants."

"Two men please God - who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not."

"A man should never be assumed foolish till he has proved himself foolish - this we owe him. A man should never be assumed wise till he has proved himself wise - this we owe to ourselves."

"In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long."

"Men have to find truth; not because it is lost, but because they are lost."

"The husband needs to be blind at times; the wife deaf; both need much of the time to be dumb."

"The owl is, therefore, the bird of wisdom because even a fool can see when it is light; it is the wise man who can see when it is dark."

"To be a good child he needs but little man in him; to be a good man he needs much of the child in him."