Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Edward Everett Hale
American Author, Historian and Unitarian Clergyman, noted child prodigy who exhibited extraordinary literary skills and at age thirteen was enrolled at Harvard University where he graduated second in his class
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."
"Fools measure actions after they are done by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end to God."
"We should never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at once. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."
"The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
"Look up, and not down; look forward, and not back; look out, an not in; and lend a hand"
"The worst use you can make of a man is to put him in prison."
"If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. "
"Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. "
"To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. "