Great Throughts Treasury

"As it is in himself alone that man can find true and enduring happiness, so in himself alone can he find true and efficient consolation in misfortune." - Joseph Marius von Babo

"The end of wisdom is repentance and good works." -

"Regeneration is the beginning of holiness in the soul, and admits of no progression; sanctification is carried on progressively in the heart of the renewed, and will be continued until it is completed in the concluding moments of life." - Charles Backus

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot

"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits." - Walter Bagehot

"An inability to stay quiet... is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind." - Walter Bagehot

"Right thinking is a prerequisite to right living... In truth the destiny of any life is determined by what fills that mind." - Roy I. Bagley

"Time is unforgiving." - Henry Christopher "H.C." Bailey

"Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride." - Joanna Baillie

"A devotion to humanity... is too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty... Freedom is not something anybody can be given, freedom is something people take." -

"Necessity is often the spur to genius." - Honoré de Balzac

"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all and love but one." - Honoré de Balzac

"Falsehood and death are synonymous." - George Bancroft

"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred." - George Bancroft

"The farther you enter into the truth, the deeper it is." - Bankei Yōtaku

"Do today what should be done. Your tomorrow may never come." - Harry F. Banks, real name possibly Harry Band

"The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather." - J.M. Barrie, fully Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet

"Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of these; and it is very bad, as being accompanied with disingenuity, obstinacy, rudeness, uncharitableness, and the like, bad dispositions; from which credulity itself, the other extreme sort of folly, is exempt." - Isaac Barrow

"Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness." - George Washington Barrow or Barrows

"Take the profit out of war." - Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch

"There can be no progress - real, moral progress - except in the individual and by the individual himself." - Charles Pierre Baudelaire

"Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance." - R. M. Baumgardy

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder." - T. H. Bayly, fully Thomas Haynes Bayly

"It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality." - Max Beerbohm, fully Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm

"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou art a fool." -

"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways." - Stephen Vincent Benét

"Obedience to duty means resistance to self." - Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson

"There is no state of mind, however simple, which does not change every moment." - Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson

"Hear much; speak little." - Bias NULL

"Truth breeds hatred." - Bias NULL

"Every man is made a fool through his own wisdom." -

"Happy is the man who finds wisdom... Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her." -

"My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon and cultivate as far as necessary for their subsistence, and so long as they occupy and cultivate it they have the right to the soil, but if they voluntarily leave it then any other people have a right to settle on it. Nothing can be sold, except things that can be carried away." - Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak NULL

"Willingness to be taught what we do not know, is the sure pledge of growth both in knowledge and wisdom." - Hugh Blair

"Innocence dwells with wisdom, but never with ignorance." - William Blake

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." - William Blake

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." - William Blake

"Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits." - Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Lady Blessington, born Margaret Power

"Idleness is the canker of the mind." - John Bodenham

"The great seal of truth is simplicity." - Hermann Boerhaave

"You may dispute principles, not experiences." - Ludwig Börne, fully Karl Ludwig Börne

"Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience." - Paul Boese

"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work." - Sarah T. Bolton, fully Sarah Tittle Barrett Bolton

"To speak well supposes a habit of attention which shows itself in the thought; by language we learn to think and above all to develop thought." - Carl Victor de Bonstetten

"In the midst of life we are in death." -

"You should have education enough so that you won't have to look up to people; and then more education so that you will be wise enough not to look down on people." - M. L. Boren

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." -

"Friendships are fragile things, and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing." -

"All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves." -

"Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented." - Christian Nestell Bovee