Great Throughts Treasury

"Facts are stubborn things."

"True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone."

"True patriotism is of no party."

"I consider the world as made for me, not me for the world. It is my maxim therefore to enjoy it while I can, and let futurity shift for itself."

"A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow."

"A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail."

"False as the fowler's artful snare."

"Glory is the fair child of peril."

"He will be weighed again at the Great Day, his rigging refitted, and his timbers repaired, and with one broadside make his adversary strike in his turn."

"Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is."

"Deep in the frozen regions of the north, a goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty!"

"And hearts resolved and hands prepared the blessings they enjoy to guard."

"Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions."

"Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, by mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, and health, and peace, and contemplation dwell."

"Not to the ensanguin'd field of death alone is valor limited: she sits serene in the deliberate council, sagely scans the source of action: weighs, prevents, provides, and scorns to count her glories, from the feats of brutal force alone."

"Number three is always fortunate."

"On Leven's banks, while free to rove, and tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain that ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave my youthful limbs I wont to lave; no torrents stain thy limpid source, no rocks impede thy dimpling course, that sweetly warbles o'er its bed, with white, round, polish'd pebbles spread."

"One half the nation is mad - and the other half not very sound."

"One wit, like a knuckle ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage."

"Opposition is the very spur of love."

"In a certain county of England, bounded on one side by the sea, and at the distance of one hundred miles from the metropolis, lived Gamaliel Pickle Esq; the father of that hero whose adventures we propose to record."

"I was born in the northern part of this united kingdom, in the house of my grandfather; a gentleman of considerable fortune and influence, who had, on many occasions, signalised himself in behalf of his country; and was remarkable for his abilities in the law, which he exercised with great success, in the station of a judge, particularly against beggars, for whom he had a singular aversion."

"Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly."

"Some folks are wise and some are otherwise."

"The capital is become an overgrown monster; which like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support."

"Thy fatal shafts unerring move, I bow before thine altar, Love!"

"Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky."

"Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye. Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky."

"To the valiant actions speak alone."

"Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall."

"Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age."