Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Mary Lyon, fully Mary Mason Lyon
American Educator, Established Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College)
"Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought."
"When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go."
"If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out."
"There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it."