Great Throughts Treasury

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

Mandell Creighton

English Historian, Bishop of the Church of England,a scholar of the Renaissance Papacy

"Gossip is none the less gossip because it comes from venerable antiquity."

"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good."

"Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas."

"The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions."