Great Throughts Treasury

"Life means that I can live to see tomorrow." - Tokugawa Ieyasu

"A good heart is the sun and moon, or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly. King Henry V, Act v, Scene 2" - William Shakespeare

"Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry, and trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, while we the living our lives are giving to bring the bright new world to birth." - William Morris

"Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing." - William Shakespeare

"O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; if only to go warm were gorgeous, why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need— you heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!" - William Shakespeare

"O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in't!" - William Shakespeare

"Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice to change true rules for odd inventions. Bianca, scene i" - William Shakespeare

"One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what color it please God. Much Ado About Nothing, Act ii, Scene 3" - William Shakespeare

"Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, and pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; thou canst help time to furrow me with age, but stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage." - William Shakespeare

"Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell." - William Shakespeare

"Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a condition of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants…" - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome." - Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

"Character is a stamp of good repute on a person." - Euripedes NULL

"The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside inÂ….The world would mold men by changing their environment. The world would shape human behavior." - Ezra Taft Benson