Great Throughts Treasury

"Women speak in the superlative."

"The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest."

"Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast."

"Always to mistake feeling for evidence."

"Are we then bound to others only by the enforcement of laws."

"Brought them up to poverty."

"But above these ruins rises a calm and happy face."

"Carn-ival means, literally, "farewell to flesh!""

"Attach a sense of remorse to each of my pleasures."

"Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives."

"Coffee is the grand work of a bachelor's housekeeping."

"Defeat and victory only displace each other by turns."

"Did not think the world was so great."

"Contemptuous pride of knowledge."

"Death, that faithful friend of the .wretched"

"Ease with which the poor forget their wretchedness."

"Everyone keeps his holidays in his own way."

"Fame and power are gifts that are dearly bought."

"Do they understand what makes them so gay?"

"Each of us regards himself as the mirror of the community."

"Fear of losing a moment from business."

"Finishes his sin thoroughly before he begins to repent."

"Favorite and conclusive answer of his class—"I know.""

"Fortune sells what we believe she gives."

"Her kindness, which never sleeps."

"Houses are vessels which take mere passengers."

"I make it a rule never to have any hope."

"Hubbub of questions which waited for no reply."

"Make himself a name: he becomes public .property"

"Looks on an accomplished duty neither as a merit nor a grievance."

"Ignorant of what there is to wish for."

"I tend him, God cures him!'"

"Moderation is the great social virtue."

"More stir than work."

"Not desirous to teach goodness."

"No one is so unhappy as to have nothing to give."

"My patronage has become her property."

"Nothing is dishonorable which is useful."

"Our tempers are like an opera-glass."

"Poverty, you see, is a famous schoolmistress."

"Question is not to discover what will suit us."

"Power of necessity."

"Prisoners of work."

"Progress can never be forced on without danger."

"Richer than France herself, for I have no deficit in my budget."

"Ruining myself, but we must all have our Carnival."

"Satisfy our wants, if we know how to set bounds to them."

"Sensible man, who has observed much and speaks little."

"So much confidence at first, so much doubt at last."

"Something more than love itself, behold the mystery of all that great."