Great Throughts Treasury

"He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends."

"Death’s but one more to-morrow."

"I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics."

"It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back."

"The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's cheque-books."

"Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland are thine for a day."

"When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate, And time seemed but the vassal of my will, I entertained certain guests of state—The great of older days."