Great Throughts Treasury

"The highest law is often the greatest wrong."

"The nature of all men is so formed that they see and discriminate in the affairs of others, much better than in their own."

"The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice."

"The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those who do us none at all."

"The market is still looking forward to discounting a neutral stance by the Fed,"

"The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those Who do us none at all."

"The very flower of youth."

"There are vicissitudes in all things."

"There are as many opinions as there are people: everyone has their own way of doing things."

"Their silence is sufficient praise."

"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly."

"There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly."

"There is nothing so easy in itself but grows difficult when it is performed against one's will."

"There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right."

"There is such malice in men as to rejoice in misfortunes And from another's woes to draw delight."

"They are so knowing that they know nothing."

"They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than their head, and think to play the fool with reason."

"This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do nothing in excess."

"This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with."

"This is the reward of my folly."

"To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect."

"Time heals all wounds."

"This is a wise maxim, 'to take warning from others of what may be to your own advantage.'"

"Time removes distress."

"To despise money on some occasions is a very great gain."

"To disregard money, on suitable occasions, is often a great profit."

"To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own."

"To touch a sore is to renew one's grief."

"To pick out meat from the very funeral pile."

"To touch a sore place. [A tender point.]"

"Too much liberty corrupts us all."

"Too much of anything is bad."

"True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come."

"We all, according as our business prospers or fails, are elated or cast down."

"We are all of us the worse for too much liberty."

"We all, when we are well, give good advice to the sick."

"We don't yet believe that consumer spending is going to slow dramatically even though there has been a lot of volatility in the stock market, ... Obviously there are a lot of investors out there who were sitting on big losses from stocks they bought from February through March. But we still see the economy as moving along strongly."

"We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves."

"What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!"

"What is done let us leave alone."

"What comes from this quarter, set it down as so much gain."

"What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense."

"Whatever chance shall bring, we will bear with equanimity."

"When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side."

"What now if the sky were to fall?"

"What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will."

"When two persons do the self-same thing, it oftentimes falls out that in the one it is criminal, in the other it is not so; not that the thing itself is different, but he who does it."

"When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick."

"When you will, they won’t, when you won’t, they will."

"When we cannot act as we wish, we must act as we can."