Great Throughts Treasury

"A man always has two reason for the things he does – a good one and the real one."

"If you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it."

"Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."

"No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. "

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther. "

"When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen."