Great Throughts Treasury

"It is said that one machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine, however, can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"The schools of the country are its future in miniature."

"A road that does not lead to other roads always has to be retraced, unless the traveler chooses to rust at the end of it."

"Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord."

"The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live."

"Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve."

"If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article."

"Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns."

"The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in."

"Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress."

"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."

"If the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist."

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."