Great Throughts Treasury

"Obscuritie in affection of words and indigested concets, is pedanticall and childish."

"Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia]; for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here."

"Our lives, by acts exemplary, not only win ourselves good names, but do to others give matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live."

"Pure innovation is more gross than error."

"One passion doth expel another still."

"Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity ... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'."

"So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live."

"Second-half growth is not expected to be as difficult to obtain."

"'T is immortality to die aspiring, as if a man were taken quick to heaven."

"The wagering business is not expected to produce significant growth in the current half. However it has been able to cope with all the factors that would normally limit its capacity to lift sales above the record growth of at least 7 percent delivered in each of the first halves of the 05, 04 and 03 financial years,"

"Therefore, in fumes of sighes and fires of griefe, to fearefull chances thou sendst bold reliefe, happie, thrise happie, Type, and nurse of death, who breathlesse, feedes on nothing but our breath, in whom must vertue and her issue liue, Or dye for euer."

"We just ask people for money."

"Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools."

"To put a girdle round about the world."

"They can't all happen at once, so, it's a matter of what goes first, what will create the most momentum for the most investment. And we think one of these two can do that."

"This was a sleight well mask'd. O, what is man, unless he be a Politician?"

"We have watered our horses in Helicon."

"Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man!"

"Your noblest natures are most credulous."

"Who to himself is law no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed."

"Words writ in waters."