Great Throughts Treasury

"Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger."

"Man proposes, God disposes."

"Modesty becomes a young man."

"No host can be hospitable enough to prevent a friend who has descended on him from becoming tiresome after three days."

"No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days."

"No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house."

"Nor do I hold that every kind of gain is always serviceable. Gain, I know, has render?d many great. But there are times when loss should be preferr?d to gain."

"Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired."

"Nothing is more acceptable to a man, than a friend in time of need."

"Nothing is more wretched than a guilty conscience."

"Nothing so wretched as a guilty conscience."

"Oh, are not the pleasures in life, in this daily round, trifling compared with the pains!"

"Old age is a bad thing."

"One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word."

"One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake."

"One eyewitness weighs more than ten hearsays. Seeing is believing, all the world over."

"Our best support and succor in distress is fortitude of mind."

"Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils."

"Patience, then, is the best remedy against affliction."

"Persevere in virtue and diligence."

"Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising."

"Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it."

"Speak no evil of an absent friend."

"Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears."

"That expression, "He means well," is useless unless he does well."

"That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one."

"That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family."

"That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not."

"That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will."

"The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb."

"The best assistance in distress is fortitude of soul."

"The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet."

"The chap that endures hard knocks like a man enjoys a soft time later on."

"The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money."

"The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions"

"The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious."

"The gods play games with men as balls."

"The man that comforts a desponding friend with words alone, does nothing. He?s a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need."

"The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors."

"The men who convey and those who listen to calumnies should, if I could have my way, all hang, the talebearers by their tongues, the listeners by their ears."

"The mind is hopeful: success is in God?s hands."

"The stronger always succeeds."

"The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none."

"There are games in which it is better to lose than win."

"There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it."

"There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate'er we do."

"There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother."

"These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad."

"They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves."

"Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish."