Great Throughts Treasury

"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. For cowards the road of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. The poltroon, like the scabbard, is an encumbrance when once the sword is drawn." - Christian Nestell Bovee

"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." - Christian Nestell Bovee

"Few minds wear out; more rust out." - Christian Nestell Bovee

"Tearless grief bleeds inwardly." - Christian Nestell Bovee

"There is great beauty in going through life fearlessly. Half our fears are baseless, the other half discreditable." - Christian Nestell Bovee

"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm." - Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

"He who cannot forgive himself with regard to you will never forgive you." - F. H. Bradley, fully Frances Herbert "F.H." Bradley

"True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall, he would be willing to repeat." - F. H. Bradley, fully Frances Herbert "F.H." Bradley

"The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him." - Georg Brandes, fully Georg Morris Cohen Brandes

"A successful life is not an easy life. It is built upon strong qualities, sacrifice, endeavor, loyalty, integrity." - Grant D. Brandon

"Truth exists, only lies have to be invented." -

"Man's mind is his essence; he is where his thoughts are." -

"Repentance should be attained through joy." -

"Learn the great art of being small." - Joseph Hayyim Brenner

"What makes woman lovely? Virtue, Faith, and gentleness in suffering, an endurance through scorn or trial; then has it the stamp celestial, and is admitted to sisterhood with angels." -

"Experience is the mother of wisdom." - Nicholas Breton (also Britton or Brittaine)

"Nobody expects to find comfort and companionability in reformers." - Heywood Broun, fully Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun

"No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey." -

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose." -

"Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire." -

"Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason, and invective for documentation than in politics. That is a realm, peopled only by villains or heroes, in which everything is black or white and gray is a forbidden color." -

"She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life." -

"A poor man serv’d by thee, shall make thee rich." - Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Every wish is like a prayer with God." - Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"I would rather be kicked with a foot than be overcome by a loud voice speaking cruel words." - Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Who loves believe the impossible." - Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Every day, people are straying away from the church and going back to God." - Lenny Bruce, born Leonard Alfred Schneider

"It is a very rare thing to find ground which produces nothing. If it is not covered with flowers, fruit trees, and grains, it produces briars and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious." - Jean de La Bruyère

"The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others." - Jean de La Bruyère

"There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery." - Jean de La Bruyère

"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked." - Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration." - Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu

"Faith, modesty, humbleness, endeavor and wisdom are the great sources of strength to him who is seeking Enlightenment. Among these, wisdom is the greatest of all and the rest are but aspects of wisdom." - Buddha, Gautama Buddha, or The Buddha, also Gotama Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha and Buddha Śākyamuni NULL

"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him; if he has conquered greed nothing can limit his freedom." - Buddha, Gautama Buddha, or The Buddha, also Gotama Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha and Buddha Śākyamuni NULL

"Genius is but a greater aptitude for patience." - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

"Every person should have two slips of paper in his pocket. On one should be written: ‘The world was created for me,’ and on the other: ‘I am but dust and ashes.’ A person has to have the wisdom to read each slip in the proper time." -

"Every successful wickedness is, to say the least, a scandal... The only lesson to be derived from the successful misdeeds of the strong is to hold life here and now in no higher esteem than it deserves." -

"That which cometh from the heart will go to the heart." - Jeremiah Burroughs or Burroughes

"One of the saddest experiences which can ever come to a human being is to awaken, gray-haired and wrinkled near the close of an unproductive career, to the fact that all through the years he has been using only a small part of himself!" - V. W. Burrows

"From self alone expect applause." - Marion LeRoy Burton

"One of the mistakes in the conduct of human life is to suppose that other men's opinions are to make us happy." - Richard Francis Burton, fully Sir Richard Francis Burton

"There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas." - Samuel Butler

"Learn to laugh. And most of all, learn to laugh at yourself. The person who can give a riotous account of his own faux pas, will never have to listen to another's embarrassing account of it. He will rarely know the sting of humiliation. His a delight to be with, but more important, he is enjoying his own life, and applying to his ills and errors the most soothing balm the human spirit has devised - laughter." - Margaret M. Butts

"A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable." - Richard E. Byrd, fully Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr.

"Knowledge is not happiness, and science but an exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance." -

"Solitude has but one disadvantage - it is apt to give one too high an opinion of one’s self. In the world we are sure to be often reminded of every known or supposed defect we may have." -

"Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure." -

"Make haste slowly." -

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

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