Great Throughts Treasury

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

Lew Wallace

American Lawyer, Governor of New Mexico, Union General, Novelist best known for Ben-Hur

"Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love."

"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."

"As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly."

"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."