Great Throughts Treasury

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

James Burgh

English Whig Politician

"Before you think of retiring from the world, be sure you are fit for retirement; in order to which it is necessary that you have a mind so composed by prudence, reason, and religion, that it may bear being looked into; a turn to rural life, and a love of study."

"In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one."

"No state can be more destitute than that of a person, who, when the delights of sense forsake him, has no pleasures of the mind."