Great Throughts Treasury

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

Joseph Cook

American Lecturer and Evangelist

"Conscience emphasizes the word ought."

"A natural law is a process, not a power: it is a method of operation, not an operator. A natural law, without God behind it, is no more than a glove without a hand in it."

"A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding."

"It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude."

"The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude."

"The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown."