Great Throughts Treasury

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

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Emile Zola

We have before us the ignoble spectacle of men who are sunken in debts and crimes being hailed as innocent, whereas the honor of a man whose life is spotless is being vilely attacked: A society that sinks to that level has fallen into decay.

Devotion | Dignity | Honor | Love | Nothing | Respect | Will | Respect |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

He is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be, and if all else remained, and we were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. He’s always, always in my mind; not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

Hypocrisy | Following | Child |

Emma Goldman

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Evolution | Future | Hypocrisy | Ideas | Important | Lesson | Past | Psychology | Time |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Danger | Death | Detachment | Devotion | Justice | Men | Danger |

Eudora Welty

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

Devotion | Learning | Writing |

Eudora Welty

For all of them told happenings like narrations, chronological and careful, as if the ear of the world listened and wished to know surely.

Devotion | Writing |

Ezra Taft Benson

We must not be cast down or discouraged in this work. There is no basis for discouragement. We are not alone. We will not, we cannot fail if we will do our duty. The Lord will magnify us even beyond our present talents and abilities.

Authority | Better | Blessings | Confidence | Devotion | God | Honor | Law | Little | Lord | Man | Nature | Principles | Tradition | Trust | Will | Wisdom | Wise | God |