Great Throughts Treasury

"Everyone has his burden; what counts is how you carry it."

"The only true happiness comes from squandering yourself for a purpose."

"What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be yappy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are."

"So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies. "

"She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life."

"Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast."

"The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better. "

"Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire."

"No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey. "

"Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason, and invective for documentation than in politics. That is a realm, peopled only by villains or heroes, in which everything is black or white and gray is a forbidden color. "

"She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life."