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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Janet Erskine Stuart, known as Mother Janet Stuart

People of many kinds ask questions, but few and rare people listen to answers. Why?

Character | People |

John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury

The best people need afflictions for trial of their virtue. How can we exercise the grace of contentment, if all things succeed well; or that of forgiveness, if we have no enemies?

Character | Contentment | Forgiveness | Grace | Need | People | Virtue | Virtue | Trial |

John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Character | Greatness | Knowledge | Man | Morality | Practice | Time | Wisdom |

Julian Stuart

When people have something worth while to live for, they discover that they have enough to live on.

Character | Enough | People | Worth |

Jonathan Swift, pen names, M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as we usually find that to be the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at. A little, and a little, collected together become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop from an inundation.

Character | Little | People | Slander |

Alan William Smolowe

How people think, relate and react to their circumstances, not what the circumstances are, is what determines their realities.

Character | Circumstances | People |

Robert Smith Surtees

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Character | People | Virtue | Virtue |

John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

Care | Character | Eternity | Heaven | Life | Life | People |

Wilhelm Stekel

Truth is not always the best basis for happiness... There are people who perish when their eyes are open.

Character | People | Truth |

Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

We are offended and resent it when people do not respect us; and yet no man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

Character | Heart | Man | People | Respect | Respect |

Hotzoas Chochmah Umassar

Usually people are not envious of someone’s virtues, but of the honor the person receives for his virtues.

Character | Honor | People |

Brooke Foss Westcott

No repentance on earth can undo the past.

Character | Earth | Past | Repentance |

Brooks Atkinson, fully Justin Brooks Atkinson

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one every thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Age | Good | Myth | People | Thought | Time | Wisdom | Old | Thought |