Great Throughts Treasury

"Nothing is more certain than incertainties."

"A find, a fire, a heaven, a hell, where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell."

"All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying."

"Apply thy minde to be a vertuous man. Auoyd ill company (the spoyle of youth;) To follow Vertues Lore doo what thou can, (Whereby great profit vnto thee ensuth;) Reade Bookes, hate Ignorance; (the Foe to Art, The Damme of Errour, Enuy of the hart)."

"As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made."

"He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part."

"Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights."

"If music and sweet poetry agree, as they must needs (the sister and the brother), then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, because thou lov'st the one, and I the other."

"Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell ."

"Every one that flatters thee Is no friends in misery. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. Every man will be thy friend Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; But if store of crowns be scant, No man will supply thy want."