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 Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Lord John Russell
English Statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
"Fear is main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty."
"Collision is as necessary to produce virtue in men as it is to elicit fire in inanimate matter; and chivalry is the essence of virtue."
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
"A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom."
"[A proverb is] the wit of one man, the wisdom of many."