Great Throughts Treasury

"Men willingly believe what they wish." -

"The best sermon is a good life." - Charles Cahier

"He who opens his heart to ambition closes it to repose." - Charles Cahier

"The monarch of his own mind is the only real potentate." - John Caird

"The law speaks too softly to be heard amid the din of arms." - Gaius Marius

"A good man never dies." - Callimachus NULL

"More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs." - Callimachus NULL

"Study first propriety." - Charles Stuart Calverley

"Fair words hurt not the mouth." - William Camden

"Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so." - William Camden

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." - Hugh C. Cameron

"To live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die." - George Campbell

"Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth." - George Campbell

"The only perfection I know of is a hearty love of god, and to love one’s neighbour as oneself. Charity is the only virtue which rightly unites us to God and man. Such union is our final aim and end, and all the rest is mere delusion." - Jean-Pierre Camus de Pontcarré

"You who are so wise must know that different nations have different conceptions of things. You will not therefore take it amiss if our ideas of the white man’s kind of education happens not to be the same as yours. We have had some experience with it. Several of our young people were brought up in your colleges. They were instructed in all your sciences; but, when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger. They didn’t know how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy. They spoke our language imperfectly. They were therefore unfit to be hunters, warriors, or counselors; they were good for nothing. We are, however, not less obliged for your kind offer, though we decline accepting it. To show our gratefulness, if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care with their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." - Canassatego Treaty of Lancaster NULL

"Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young." -

"Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation." - George Canning

"Leisure is empty time." - Anne Vaughan, Countess of Carberry

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." - Liane Cardes

"We are what we believe we are." -

"To enforce one's rights when they are violated is never a legal wrong, and may often be a moral duty." -

"The fairest action of our human life is scorning to revenge an injury; for who forgives without a further strife, his adversary’s heart to him doth tie: and ‘tis a firmer conquest, truly said, to win the heart than overthrow the head." - Elizabeth Carew, Lady Carew, formerly Lady Elizabeth Bryan

"Manners are stronger than laws." - Alexander Carlile

"What I engage in, I must push inordinately." - Andrew Carnegie

"The secret of happiness is renunciation." - Andrew Carnegie

"At rest everywhere... Indifference... Equality." -

"There is no peace except where I am, saith the Lord... As space spreads everywhere, and all things move and change within it, but it moves not nor changes, so I am the space within the soul, of which the space without is but the similitude and mental image; cometh thou to inhabit me, thou hast the entrance to all life - death shall no longer divide thee from whom thou lovest. I am the sun that shines upon all creatures from within - gazest thou upon me thou shalt be filled with joy eternal. Be not deceived. Soon this outer world shall drop off - thou shalt slough it away as a man sloughs his mortal body. Learn even now to spread thy wings in that other world - the world of equality - to swim in the ocean, my child, of me and my love. (Ah! have I not taught thee by the semblance of this outer world, but its alienations and deaths and mortal sufferings - all for this? For joy, ah! joy unutterable!)" -

"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it." -

"In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay." - Charles Edwin Carruthers

"True worth is in being, not seeming." - Alice Cary

"The human heart is a mirror of the things that are near and far." - Alice Cary

"The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked." - Pablo Casals, fully Pau Casals i Defilló

"To retire is to begin to die." - Pablo Casals, fully Pau Casals i Defilló

"Soul is not easy to find in infinite space, but it can always be discovered in a particular place." - Edward S. Casey

"God creates. People rearrange." -

"To live a life of pleasure is impossible without living a life of virtue and justice." - Cassius, fully Gaius Cassius Longinus NULL

"Each man is different; each man must find his own path. Each man is the same; each man must find his own path." -

"The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked to himself." -

"When a man decides to do something he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. He must know first why he is doing it and then he must proceed with his actions with no doubts or remorse." -

"I praise loudly; I blame softly." - Catherine II "Catherine the Great", born Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg NULL

"Next to the slanderer, we detest the bearer of the slander to our ears." - Mary Hartwell Catherwood

"Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life." - Carrie Chapman Catt

"All things are ungrateful." -

"Do what you are doing now, suffer what you are suffering now; to do all this with holiness, nothing need be changed but your hearts. Sanctity consists in willing what happens to us by God’s order." -

"There is no one in the world who cannot arrive without difficulty at the most eminent perfection by fulfilling with love obscure and common duties." -

"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them." - Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, fully Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, conte di Cavour

"Mind is the builder." - Edgar Cayce, known as the "Sleeping Prophet"

"An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim - that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet." - Richard Cecil

"Aversion from reproof is not wise. It is a mark of a little mind. A great man can afford to lose; a little, insignificant fellow is afraid of being snuffed out." - Richard Cecil

"Eloquence is vehement simplicity." - Richard Cecil