Great Throughts Treasury

"He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act."

"Measure not life by the hopes and enjoyments of this world, but by the preparation it makes for another; looking forward to what you shall be rather than backward to what you have been."

"He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy."

"The noble man is only God's image."

"With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of all earthly hope, bereft of every consolation, he was rendered as poor as mortal can possibly be on this side of the grave."

"He talks nonsense; to a sensible man there is no such thing as chance."

"He who does not love flowers has lost all love and fear of God."

"Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring."

"Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth."