Great Throughts Treasury

"A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on."

"A book can give greater riches than any; other form of recreation but it cannot provide the last answers. They must be found in the loneliness of a man's own mind. Books can help a man be ready for those moments. But neither books nor teachers can provide the answers."

"Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings... Money breeds money, money rules the world."

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

"Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace."

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment."

"The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post-mortems. And remember, no one can get the jump on the future."

"To never see a fool you lock yourself in a room and smash the looking-glass."

"I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great , rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. A satisfied flower is one whose petals are about to fall. The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud wherein the pangs and ecstasies of desire are working for larger and finer growth."

"Nothing happens unless first a dream."

"Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of all blessings."

"I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way."

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

"The history of the world and its peoples in three words – “Born, troubled, died.”"