Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
David Mallet, also David Malloch
Scottish Author and Dramatist
"The multitude unawed is insolent; once seized with fear, contemptible and vain."
"The biggest liar in the world is They Say."
"Who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it."
"Who hath not known ill-fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish."
"Are afflictions aught but mercies in disguise? th' alternate cup. Medicinal though bitter, and prepar'd by love's own hand for salutary ends."
"I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it."
"Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee."
"True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike."
"Ambition! deadly tyrant! inexorable master! what alarms, what anxious hours, what agonies of heart, are the sure portion of thy gaudy slaves?"
"O grant me, heav'n, a middle state, neither too humble nor too great; more than enough for nature's ends, with something left to treat my friends."
"The vulgar refuse or crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining."
"A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it."