Great Throughts Treasury

"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."

"Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not."

"Whoever keeps an open ear for tattlers, will be sure to hear the trumpet of contention; aspersion is the babbler's trade, to listen is to lend him aid, and rush into dissension."

"Whoso seeks an audit here propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish, wild fowl or venison, and his errand speeds."

"Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."

"Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark."

"With a soul that ever felt the sting of sorrow, sorrow is a sacred thing."

"With filial confidence inspired, can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, and smiling say, my father made them all!"

"With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave; some chord in unison with what we hear is touch'd within us, and the heart replies."

"With oaths like rivets forced into your brain."

"With outstretched hoe I slew him at the door, and taught him NEVER TO COME THERE NO MORE."

"With respect to the education of boys, I think they are generally made to draw in Latin and Greek trammels too soon. It is pleasing, no doubt, to a parent, to see his child already in some sort a proficient in those languages at an age when most others are entirely ignorant of them; but hence it often happens that a boy who could construe a fable of Æsop at six or seven years of age, having exhausted his little stock of attention and diligence in making that notable acquisition, grows weary of his task, conceives a dislike for study, and perhaps makes but a very indifferent progress afterwards."

"With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves."

"Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia give the world repose."

"Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties."

"Words pregnant with celestial fire."

"Would I describe a preacher… I would express him simple, grave, sincere; in doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, and plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, and natural in gesture; much impress'd himself, as conscious of his awful charge, and anxious mainly that the flock he feeds may feel it too; affectionate in look, and tender in address, as well becomes a messenger of grace to guilty men."

"Wretch even then, life's journey just begun."

"Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, the clouds you so much dread are big with mercy and shall break, with blessings on your head"

"Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too."

"Yon ancient prude, whose wither'd features show she might be young some forty years ago, her elbows pinion'd close upon her hips, her head erect, her fan upon her lips, her eyebrows arch'd, her eyes both gone astray to watch yon amorous couple in their play, with bony and unkerchief'd neck defies the rude inclemency of wintry skies, and sails, with lappet-head and mincing airs, duly at chink of bell to morning prayers."

"You do well to improve your opportunity; to speak in the rural phrase, this is your sowing time, and the sheaves you look for can never be yours, unless you make that use of it. The colour of our whole life is generally such as the three or four first years in which we are our own masters make it. Then it is that we may be said to shape our own destiny, and to treasure up for ourselves a series of future successes or disappointments."

"Your lordship and your grace, what school can teach a rhetoric equal to those parts of speech? What need of homer's verse, or tully's prose, sweet interjections! If he learn but those? Let rev'rend churls his ignorance rebuke, who starve upon a dog's ear'd Pentateuch, the parson knows enough who knows a duke."