Great Throughts Treasury

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

Lewis Edward Lawes

American Warden of Sing Sing Prison and Elimira Correctional Facility and Proponent of Prison Reform, Author

"If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor."

"Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes."

"As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively."

"Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children's courts of the future will have less to do."