Great Throughts Treasury

"We could not endure solitude were it not for the powerful companionship of hope, or of some unseen one."

"We do not marvel at the sunrise of a joy, only at its sunset! Then, on the other hand, we are amazed at the commencement of a sorrow-storm; but that it should go off in gentle showers, we think quite natural. "

"What most increases anger is the feeling that one is in the wrong. "

"What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes, cease."

"What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity."

"Why is it that a blessing only when it is lost cuts as deep into the heart as a sharp diamond? Why must we first weep before we can love so deeply that our hearts ache?"

"Whoever can turn his weeping eyes to heaven has lost nothing; for there, above, is everything he an wish for here below. He only is a loser, who persists in looking down on the narrow plains of the present time. "

"When we die, we shall find we have not lost our dreams; we have only lost our sleep. "