Great Throughts Treasury

"To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will."

"Hence I pronounce this, that as old experience doth attain to something like prophetic strain, so all comely facility traces back to long pondering; intuitions are the reward of ancient gropings."

"Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection, we have forfeited our manhood."

"All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a thousand."