Great Throughts Treasury

"None are so busy as the fool and the knave."

"Stiff in opinion; always in the wrong."

"The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind's bribe."

"Truth is the fountain of all knowledge and the cement of all societies."

"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thought of what may be."

"The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man; we naturally aim at happiness, and cannot bear to have it confined to our present being."

"All empire is no more than power in trust."

"Happy the person, and happy they alone, those who can call today their own: Those who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived"

"today."

"Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul."

"Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."