Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Henry Gardiner Adams

English Author

"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean."

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."

"Hell is truth seen too late."