Great Throughts Treasury

"Those who do not complain are never pitied."

"We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"Sometimes there are living beings in nature as beautiful as in romance. Reality surpasses imagination; and we see breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep."

"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"

"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are mor than enough for others."

"The less said the better."