Great Throughts Treasury

"Every eye forms its own beauty." - Charles George Harper

"The man who listens is from the outset a spiritual being compared with the person who merely speaks, sees, and grasps. Hearing and taking in are spiritual activities: hearing the unchangeable, the untouchable, the incomprehensible, the constant, the eternal within the Melos. Only someone who listens can also recognize, interpret, think, speak, apprehend and comprehend." - Josef Matthias Hauer

"Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two bear it lightly." - Wilhelm Hauff

"Feeling comes before reflection." - Hugh Reginald Haweis

"Learn to think in positive affirmations. Too often we think in negative affirmations." - Louise L. Hay

"Blame is one of the surest ways to stay in a problem." - Louise L. Hay

"Guilt always looks for punishment, and punishment creates pain." - Louise L. Hay

"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. If you want to receive a great deal, you first have to give a great deal. If each individual will give of himself to whomever he can, wherever he can, in any way that he can, in the long run he will be compensated in the exact proportion he gives." - Ralph A. Hayward

"Your mind is rich enough in subtlety: you must enrich it also in wisdom." - Judah Leon Abravanel, or Abrabanel, Leo Hebraeus, Leo Ebreo, Leo the Hebrew

"Man is always trying to make something for himself rather than something of himself." - Moses Heifetz

"Thought is invisible nature; nature, visible thought." - Heinrich Heine

"Thought precedes action as lightning does thunder." - Heinrich Heine

"What poetry there is in human tears!" - Heinrich Heine

"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy." - Robert A. Heinlein, fully Robert Anson Heinlein, pen name for Anson MacDonald

"Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil." - Robert A. Heinlein, fully Robert Anson Heinlein, pen name for Anson MacDonald

"Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business." - Robert A. Heinlein, fully Robert Anson Heinlein, pen name for Anson MacDonald

"Genius is nothing but continued attention." - Claude-Adrien Helvétius

"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy." - Felicia Hemans, fully Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans

""A Farewell To Arms"; that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"Afflictions are the medicine of the mind. If they are not toothsome, let it suffice that they are wholesome. It is not required in physic that it should please, but heal." - John Henshaw, fully Bishop John Prentiss Kewley Henshaw

"Remember that God will not be mocked; that it is the heart of the worshiper which He regards. We are never safe till we love Him with our whole heart whom we pretend to worship." - John Henshaw, fully Bishop John Prentiss Kewley Henshaw

"In building a firm foundation for Success, here are a few stones to remember: The wisdom of preparation. The value of confidence. The worth of honesty. The privilege of working. The discipline of struggle. The magnetism of character. The radiance of health. The forcefulness of simplicity. The winsomeness of courtesy. The attractiveness of modesty. The inspiration of cleanliness. The satisfaction of serving. The power of suggestion. The buoyancy of enthusiasm. The advantage of initiative. The virtue of patience. The rewards of co-operation. The fruitfulness of perseverance. The sportsmanship of losing. The joy of winning." - Rollo C. Hester

"We never can willingly offend where we sincerely love." - Rowland Hill

"Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections." - Magnus Hirschfeld

"Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny." - John Oliver Hobbes, Pseud. for Mrs. Pearlmary-Teresa Craigie

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." - Hans Hoffman

"A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea." - Hans Hoffman

"Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling." - Hans Hoffman

"Times change and we change with them." - Raphael Holinshed

"As the very atoms of the earth and the stars of the sky seek harmony with the system which binds them in a cosmic unity, so the souls of men seek harmony with the Spirit which makes them one." - John Haynes Holmes

"War some day will be abolished by the will of man. This assertion does not in any way invalidate the truth that war is fundamentally caused by impersonal, political, economic and social forces. But it is the destiny of man to master and control such force, even as it is his destiny to harness rivers, chain the lightning and ride the storm. It is human will, operating under social forces, that has abolished slavery, infanticide, dueling, and a score of other social enormities. Why should it not do the same for war?" - John Haynes Holmes

"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next." - Herbert Hoover, fully Herbert Clark Hoover

"Humble things become the humble." - Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL

"It is virtue, to fly vice; and the highest wisdom to have lived free from folly." - Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL

"Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom." - Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." - Victor Hugo

"Inspiration and genius - one and the same." - Victor Hugo

"Revolution is the larva of civilization." - Victor Hugo

"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time." - Victor Hugo

"Wisdom and eloquences are not always united." - Victor Hugo

"Wisdom is the health of the soul." - Victor Hugo

"All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion." - David Hume

"Among the other excellencies of man, this is one, that he can form the image of perfection much beyond what he has experience of in himself, and is not limited in his conception of wisdom and virtue." - David Hume

"In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found." - David Hume

"True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing." - Edward Porter Humphrey

"True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing." - Hubert Humphrey, fully Hubert Horatio Humphrey

"True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing." - Harry E. Humphreys, Jr.

"He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom." - James G. Huneker, fully James Gibbons Huneker

"Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope." - James Henry Leigh Hunt

"Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not limited acquisition." - Robert Hutchins, fully Robert Maynard Hutchins