Great Throughts Treasury

"Do you that good which I say, not that ill which I do."

"No one is so old that they cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today."

"It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous."

"O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope."

"Goods which are not shared are not goods."

"The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise."

"Riches do not make one rich but busy."

"The use of riches is better than their possession."

"When one door closes, fortune will usually open another."

"When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy."