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 O. McKay

American Educator, President of The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints

"The true purpose of life, aside from resisting oppression from without, each individual carries within himself, the responsibility of living nobly or ignobly."

"Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best."

"No worldly success can compensate for failure in the home."

"Reading affords the opportunity to everyone - the poor, the rich, the humble, the great - to spend as many hours as he wishes in the company of the noblest men and women that the world has ever known."