Great Throughts Treasury

"Every fact means something beyond itself."

"There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless."

"It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another."

"For what I give, not what I take, for battle, not for victory, my prayer of thanks I make."

"In boys and girls alike, and in more of their elders, perhaps, than we suspect, the affection for dolls is chiefly an aspect of the social sense and an example of the pleasure we all take in projecting our own personalities and in controlling the liv."

"One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet."