Great Throughts Treasury

"Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life."

"Self-love, in the true sense, is the love of one’s real good - of truth, of virtue, of beauty, of God. It is the strongest in those who are most alive in their higher nature. It is the opposite of selfish love."

"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."

"The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. "

"We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. "

"Your faith is what you believe, not what you know."

"What we love to do we find time to do."

"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. "

"If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad."

"Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life’s burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry."