Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Pierre-Jules Hetzel, wrote under pen name P. J. Stahl
French Author, Editor and Publisher including works of Jules Verne and Victor Hugo
"Obedience is the primary and irremissible motive and the foundation of all morality."
"He who is false to his fellow-man is also false to his Maker."
"Pardon is voluntary forgetfulness, while forgetfulness is involuntary pardon."
"There is no permanent love but that which has duty for its eldest brother; so that if one sleeps the other watches, and honor is safe."
"Love, even if it is caring and great in quantity, can be wasted."
"Homeliness has this advantage over its enemy, beauty. It is that it is as difficult for an ugly woman to be calumniated as for a pretty woman not to be."