Great Throughts Treasury

"For art is nature made by man to man the interpreter of God."

"Thought alone is eternal."

"The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one, may hope to achieve it before life be done; but he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows... a harvest of barren regrets."

"?T is more brave to live than to die."

"Are not great men the models of nations?"

"Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God"

"Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize."

"Be very sure that no man will learn anything at all unless he first will learn humility."

"For art is nature made by man to man the interpreter of god. Meanwhile, the sun, in his setting, sent up the last smile of his power, to baffle the storm. And, behold! O?er the mountains embattled, his armies, all gold, rose and rested: while far up the dim airy crags, its artillery silenced, its banners in rags, the rear of the tempest its sullen retreat drew off slowly, receding in silence, to meet the powers of the night, which, now gathering afar, had already sent forward one bright, single star."

"Genius does what it must; and talent does what it can."

"Good-humor is goodness and wisdom combined."

"Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer."

"Heaven?s slow but sure redress of human ills."

"Let any man show the world that he feels Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels: Let him fearlessly face it, 't will leave him alone: But 't will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone"

"Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man"

"That caressing and exquisite grace?never bold, ever present?which just a few women possess."

"Sometimes a dark thought crossed my fancy, like the sullen bat that flies athwart the melancholy moon at eve."

"Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read."

"Life is good, but not life in itself."

"One of the sublimest thing in the world is plain truth."

"No life can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby."

"That?s best which God sends. ?Twas His will: it is mine."

"That old miracle?Love-at-first-sight?needs no explanations. The heart reads aright its destiny sometimes."

"The glittering tresses which, now shaken loose, shower?d gold."

"The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day"

"There is a pleasure that is born of pain."

"The sylphs and ondines and the sea-kings and queens long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city, as lovely as seems to some bard in his dreams, the soul of his latest love-ditty."

"There is nothing certain in a man?s life but that he must lose it."

"The things which must be must be for the best."

"There is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish."

"There is war in the skies! Lo! the black-winged legions of tempest arise o?er those sharp splinter?d rocks that are gleaming below in the soft light, so fair and so fatal, as though some seraph burn?d through them, the thunderbolt searching which the black cloud unbosom?d just now."

"They only fall that strive to move, or lose that care to keep."

"Those true eyes too pure and too honest in aught to disguise the sweet soul shining through them."

"We are but as the instrument of heaven."

"We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks."

"When time is flown, how it fled it is better neither to ask nor tell, leave the dead moments to bury their dead."

"Who knows nothing base, fears nothing known."

"We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain."

"We stand in our own light wherever we go, and fight our own shadows forever."

"Words, however, are things."

"You know there are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, more expressive may be than all words ever spoken. It is when the heart has an instinct of what in the heart of another is passing."