Great Throughts Treasury

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

Youth

"Remember, sir, my liege, the kings your ancestors, together with the natural bravery of your isle, which stands as Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in with rocks unscalable and roaring waters, with sands that will not bear your enemies' boats but suck them up to th' topmast." - William Shakespeare

"I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to an unknown god." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"This world is a vaporous jest at best, tossed off by the gods in laughter, and a cruel attempt at wit were it, if nothing better came after." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace." - Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book." - Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

"A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones." - Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key

"For that mist may break when the sun is high and this soul forget its sorrow and the rose ray of the closing day may promise a brighter ‘morrow." - Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

"I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school.... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"I had an inheritance from my father, it was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, the spending of itÂ’s never done." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

"Who is afraid of wolf should not go into the woods." - Estonian Proverbs

"Who is smart will learn." - Estonian Proverbs

"As one gets older, litigation replaces sex." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"Intellectual darkness is essential to industrial slavery." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

"Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul – a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe." -

"Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory." - Euripedes NULL

"It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"The next four weeks of solitary confinement were among the happiest of Paul's life...It was so exhilarating, he found, never to have to make any decision on any subject, to be wholly relieved from the smallest consideration of time, meas, or clothes, to have no anxiety ever about what kind of impression he was making; in fact, to be free." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"As we cleanse the inner vessel, there will have to be changes made in our own personal lives, in our families, and in the Church. The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. But we can do it." - Ezra Taft Benson

"There is a city to be built, the plan of which we carry in our heads, in our hearts. Countless generations have already toiled at the building of it. The effort to aid in completing it, with us, takes the place of prayer. In this sense we say, "Laborare est orare."" - Felix Adler

"I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"As I stoop to lace my shoe you clout me over the coccyx with a length of hickory (Carya lacinosa). I conclude instantly that you are a jackass. This is a whole process of human thought in little. This also is free will." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

"If the inner psychic ground of our individual appearance were not always the same, there could be no science of psychology, which qua science relies on a psychic ?inside we are all alike,? just as the science of physiology and medicine relies on the sameness of our inner organs. ... The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body." - Hannah Arendt

"The eye of the master fattens the horse." - Italian Proverbs

"I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate.' A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes. 'For one thing it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time saying anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"Remember, sir, my liege, the kings your ancestors, together with the natural bravery of your isle, which stands as Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in with rocks unscalable and roaring waters, with sands that will not bear your enemies' boats but suck them up to th' topmast." - William Shakespeare

"I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to an unknown god." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"This world is a vaporous jest at best, tossed off by the gods in laughter, and a cruel attempt at wit were it, if nothing better came after." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace." - Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book." - Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

"A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones." - Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key

"For that mist may break when the sun is high and this soul forget its sorrow and the rose ray of the closing day may promise a brighter ‘morrow." - Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

"I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school.... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"I had an inheritance from my father, it was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, the spending of itÂ’s never done." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

"Who is afraid of wolf should not go into the woods." - Estonian Proverbs

"Who is smart will learn." - Estonian Proverbs

"As one gets older, litigation replaces sex." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"Intellectual darkness is essential to industrial slavery." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

"Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul – a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe." -

"Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory." - Euripedes NULL

"It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"The next four weeks of solitary confinement were among the happiest of Paul's life...It was so exhilarating, he found, never to have to make any decision on any subject, to be wholly relieved from the smallest consideration of time, meas, or clothes, to have no anxiety ever about what kind of impression he was making; in fact, to be free." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"As we cleanse the inner vessel, there will have to be changes made in our own personal lives, in our families, and in the Church. The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. But we can do it." - Ezra Taft Benson

"There is a city to be built, the plan of which we carry in our heads, in our hearts. Countless generations have already toiled at the building of it. The effort to aid in completing it, with us, takes the place of prayer. In this sense we say, "Laborare est orare."" - Felix Adler

"I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"As I stoop to lace my shoe you clout me over the coccyx with a length of hickory (Carya lacinosa). I conclude instantly that you are a jackass. This is a whole process of human thought in little. This also is free will." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

"If the inner psychic ground of our individual appearance were not always the same, there could be no science of psychology, which qua science relies on a psychic ?inside we are all alike,? just as the science of physiology and medicine relies on the sameness of our inner organs. ... The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body." - Hannah Arendt