Great Throughts Treasury

"Fear makes men ready to believe the worst."

"Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule."

"The deepest rivers flow with the smallest noise."

"War admits no excuses."

"Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own."

"A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration."

"A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites"

"A timid dog barks more violently than it bites."

"A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode"

"By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded."

"But few prize honor more than money."

"Despair is a great incentive to honorable death."

"Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies."

"Habit is stronger than nature."

"Haste is slow."

"It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate."

"Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers."

"Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak. [Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak.]"

"Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man"

"For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestinated."

"Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue cannot reach it."

"The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent."

"That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal."

"Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite."

"When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear."