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 Ridley, fully James Kenneth Ridley, wrote under pen name Sir Charles Morell

English Author, Chaplain of the British Army

"The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example."

"Think not, Sultan, that in the sequestered vale alone dwells virtue, and her sweet companion, with attentive eye, mild, affable benevolence! No, the first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example."