Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Arsène Houssaye
French Novelist, Poet and Man of Letters
"We must always have old memories and young hopes."
"Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens heaven to us in the midst of every tempest."
"Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?"
"There are two persons in the world we never see as they are - one’s self and one’s other self."