Great Throughts Treasury

"A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue."

"Good hearts admit of amendment."

"Bear patiently my heart - for you have suffered heavier things."

"Labor conquers all things."

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it."

"One should fear the envy of relatives and friends more than the envy of enemies."

"The hearts of the great can be changed."

"Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much."

"The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others."

"For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts."

"In youth and beauty wisdom, is but rare!"

"No man is able of himself to do all things."

"Children are a man's crown."

"Reproach is infinite, and knows no end."

"Noblest minds are easiest bent."

"Light is the task where many share the toil."

"Too much rest itself becomes a pain."

"Union gives strength, even to weak men."

"The force of union conquers all."

"There is weariness in too much sleep."

"The hearts of the young are unstable, but an old man, in whatsoever he undertaketh, looketh both before and after."

"There is satiety of all things, of sleep and love, of sweet song and the goodly dance."

"Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round."

"Even the poorest fighters turn into brave men when they stand side by side."

"Hateful to me even as the gates of Hades is he that hideth one thing in his heart and uttereth another."