Great Throughts Treasury

"Nobody believes in anything without an inner feeling that it can be realized. This is the only source of dreamlike powers"

"There are only two things that can destroy a healthy man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more."

"It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder."

"For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world."

"God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us."

"I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart."