Great Throughts Treasury

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

John LaFarge

American Painter, Muralist, Stained Glass Window Maker, Decorator and Writer

"Race prejudice, in its gravest and most typical form, is the passing judgment of criminality or of essential inferiority upon all the members of a racial or ethnic group, with no sufficient intellectual motive for such a judgment."

"The full use of taste is an act of genius."

"The Church’s own littleness is the key to its greatness. God wishes to show that man’s salvation is His work, and not man’s."

"To walk with God takes courage, and in old ge God asks us to walk with Him."

"The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired. "