Great Throughts Treasury

"Nature and education are somewhat similar. The later transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature."

"One great difference between a wise man and a fool is: the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities."

"It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new... Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and manysideedness... Cheerfulness, and often Confidence, that is a mind devoid of fear, the highest good."

"Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses."

"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."

"Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul."

"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss."

"Nothing is real, or if it is, we don’t know it. We have no way of knowing the truth. Truth is at the bottom of an abyss."

"If you do not desire much, little will seem much to you, for small wants give poverty the power of wealth."

"One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities."

"Opinion says hot and cold, but the reality is atoms and empty space."

"The word is the shadow of the deed."

"There are two forms of knowledge, one legitimate, one bastard. To the bastard belong all the following: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch. The other is legitimate, and is separate from this."

"Man is a Universe in little."

"The enmity of one’s kindred is far more bitter than the enmity of strangers."

"It is better to correct your own faults than those of another."

"All things happen by virtue of necessity."