Great Throughts Treasury

"It is shameful for a man to live as a stranger in his own country, and to be uninformed of her affairs and interests."

"To be born is to begin to die; the end is linked to the beginning."

"Every one is in a small way the image of God."

"Every one is poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only for what he has not."

"All things obey fixed laws."

"We are always beginning to live, but are never living."

"Time stands with impartial law. "

"Labor is itself a pleasure."

"Even pleasure itself is a toil."

"A docile disposition will, with application, surmount every difficulty."

"No barriers, no masses of matter, however enormous, can withstand the powers of the mind; the remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb, the very heaven itself is laid open."

"There is a warp of evil woven in the woof of good."

"Everyone is in a small way the image of God."

"Everything that is created is changed by the laws of man; the earth does not know itself in the revolution of years; even the races of man assume various forms in the course of ages."

"When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning."

"Who can know heaven except by its gifts? And who can find out God unless the man who is himself an emanation from God?"

"The hours fly along in a circle."