Great Throughts Treasury

"The world rolls round for ever like a mill; it grinds out death and life, and good and ill. It has not purpose, heart or mind or will."

"I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? "

"That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. "

"Ingratitude is treason to mankind. "