Great Throughts Treasury

"To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it."

"To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty."

"Vanity backbites more than Malice."

"Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy."

"We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

"What can laws do without morals?"

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water."

"When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth."

"Who has deceived thee so often as thyself?"

"Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions."

"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."

"Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits."

"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone."

"Wink at small faults - remember thou hast great ones."

"Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason."

"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."

"9 Men in 10 are suicides."

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."

"A wise Man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly."

"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."

"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."

"All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful."

"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires."

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."

"Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins."

"Beware of little Expences: a little leak will sink a great ship."

"Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge."

"Creditors have better memories than debtors; they are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times."

"Death takes no bribes."

"Do good to thy friend to keep him -- to thine enemy to gain him."

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."

"Each year, one vicious habit rooted out in time ought to make the worst man good."

"Early morning hath gold in its mouth."

"Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

"Eat few suppers and you'll need few medicines."

"Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Leisure is time for doing something useful, and this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never, for a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things."

"Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct."

"Fly pleasures and they'll follow you."

"For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail."

"God heals and the Doctor takes the fees."

"God helps those that help themselves."

"Half the truth is often a great Lie."

"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it is."

"He does not possess wealth, it possesses him."

"He is a fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom."

"He is not well-bred, that cannot bear ill-breeding in others."

"He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face"

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."