Great Throughts Treasury

"All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner." - Cyrus the Great, aka Cyrus the Elder, Cyrus II or Cyrus of Persia NULL

"If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state." - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury

"It is certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him." - David Hume

"This is the tax a man must pay to his virtues - they hold up a torch to his vices, and render those frailties notorious in him which would have passed without observation in another." - James Bryant Conant

"Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anything else?" -

"Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on." - Richard Whately

"The soul is drawing nearer to Him, and so she has greater experience within herself of the void of God, of very heavy darkness, and of spiritual fire which dries up and purges her, so that thus purified she may be united with Him." - Saint John of the Cross, born Juan de Yepes Álvarez NULL

"Man's perfection would be the fulfillment of his end; and his end would be union with his Maker." - William James

"God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy." - William Law

"What a strange thing is it, that a little health, or the poor business of a shop, should keep us so senseless of these great things that are coming so fast upon us!" - William Law

"The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets." - Edwin Percy Whipple