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 Sterling
English Author and Poet
"The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that."
"Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. "
"Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. "
"Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. "
"Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. "
"There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies. "