Great Throughts Treasury

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

Greatness

"I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible, loving, human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride." - William James

"The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius." - Edwin Percy Whipple

"So foul and fair a day I have not seen." - William Shakespeare

"So, of his gentleness, Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom." - William Shakespeare

"Some book there is that she desires to see. Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy. But thou art deeper read and better skilled: Come and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens reveal the damned contriver of this deed. Titus Andronicus (Titus at IV, i)" - William Shakespeare

"And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness His rest." - Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death." - Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"There is a haunting phantom called Regret, a shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, but fairer in the face, whom all men know by her said mien, and eyes forever wet. No heart would seek her; but once having met all take her by the hand, and to and fro they wander through those paths of long ago-- those hallowed ways 'twere wiser to forget." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara