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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Theodor Reik

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

Character | Men |

William Robertson

Truth lies in character... Truth is a thing not of words, but of life and being.

Character | Life | Life | Truth | Words |

Nancy Reagan, born Anne Frances Robbins

Love means giving one’s self to another person fully, not just physically. When two people really love each other, this helps them to stay alive and grow. One must be loved to grow. Love’s such a precious and fragile thing that when it comes we have to hold on tightly. And when it comes, we’re very lucky because for some it never comes at all. If you have love, you’re wealthy in a way that can never be measured.

Character | Giving | Love | Means | People | Self |

Bernice Johnson Reagon

The thing that must survive you is not just the record of your practice, but the principles that are the basis of your practice.

Character | Practice | Principles |

Roy L. Smith, aka Mr. Methodist

As a man grows older, he values the voice of experience more and the voice of prophecy less. He finds more of life's wealth in the common pleasures - home, health, children. He thinks more about worth of men and less about their wealth. He boasts less and boosts more. He hurries less, and usually makes more progress. He esteems the friendship of God a little higher.

Character | Children | Experience | God | Health | Life | Life | Little | Man | Men | Progress | Prophecy | Wealth | Worth | Friendship | God |

Fulton Sheen, fully Archbishop Fulton John Sheen

The principal reason for sex deification is loss of belief in God. Once men lose God, they lose the purpose of life; and when the purpose of living is forgotten, the universe becomes meaningless. Man then tries to forget his emptiness in the intensity of a momentary experience.

Belief | Character | Experience | God | Life | Life | Man | Men | Purpose | Purpose | Reason | Universe | Loss |

Alexander Smith

When a men is happy, every effort to express his happiness mars its completeness.

Character | Effort | Happy | Men | Happiness |

Samuel Smiles

To be worth anything, character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation, and trial; and able to bear the wear and tear of actual life. Cloistered virtues do not count for much.

Character | Life | Life | Temptation | Work | World | Worth |

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There’s no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Character | Good | Little | Malice | Nature |

Samuel Smiles

"Knowledge is power," but... knowledge of itself, unless wisely directed, might merely make bad men more dangerous.

Character | Knowledge | Men | Power |