Great Throughts Treasury

"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal."

"From the little spark may burst a mighty flame."

"Often a retrospect delights the mind."

"The greatest gift that God in His bounty made... was the freedom of the will, with which the intelligent creatures were and are endowed."

"The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty."

"The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time."

"Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts."

"There is no greater pain than to recall a happy time in wretchedness."

"Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God."

"World government is necessary for the world... World government must be understood in the sense that it governs mankind on the basis of what all have in common and that by a common law it leads all toward peace."

"The supreme desire of everything, and that first given by nature, is to return to its source; and since God is the source of our souls and Maker of them… to him this soul desires above all to return."

"The whole universe is but the footprint of the divine goodness."

"Amidst the calm and tranquillity of peace the human race accomplishes most freely and easily its’ given work… Whence it is manifest that universal peace is the best of those things that are ordained for our beatitude."

"A great flame follows a little spark. "

"Beauty awakens the soul to act. "

"Follow your own star! "

"The more perfect a thing is; the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."